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The Eve team had been using some other language, then Jamie Brandon fell in love with RUST,and it led to a split in the company. Rust is such a low level langua
by magicmouse 6y ago
The Eve team had been using some other language, then Jamie Brandon fell in love with RUST,and it led to a split in the company. Rust is such a low level language; its primitive types are things like integers from 8 to 128 bits. but doesn't have any drawing, event mgt, or layout tools in the language. I can't imagine trying to build a graphical interactive product in Rust. It's similar to Modula-2 in terms of level, with one added trick, the memory borrow checking. I think of Rust as a one trick pony, that helps handle multi-threading memory management. Something that a browser maker would think ideal. I could never use it. Far too clumsy for building graphical interactive software, which is my wheelhouse.
- ssokolow 6y agoIt sounds like you're making it a requirement that a language should be tightly coupled to a specific application framework (or at least a specific event loop and fat standard library). Is that correct? (If so, it's a perspective very alien to me because it seems like something that would limit the language in the same way that PHP is limited by its historical tight coupling to the task of request-lifecycle'd HTML templating.)