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Great article. One nitpick: > One of the biggest benefits of using a systems programming language is the ability to have control over low-level details. I thi
by vperez 7y ago
Great article. One nitpick:
> One of the biggest benefits of using a systems programming language is the ability to have control over low-level details.
I think this is a misguided conflation of "systems programming" and "low-level programming", those are separate things. See http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/ http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
- calibas 7y agoAh, the eternal argument over what qualifies as "low-level". I think we can all agree it's not Javascript, but beyond that opinions vary greatly and it's mainly a semantic issue.
- ncmncm 7y agoWith current languages, we should speak more about range. C++'s and Rust's ranges stretch from C's at the bottom up to near ML's. Java is stuck in a little space in the middle.