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Great article that I am sharing with non-tech friends and family. The most powerful point is to stop using unsafe programming languages. I usually use Common L
by mark_l_watson 5y ago
Great article that I am sharing with non-tech friends and family.
The most powerful point is to stop using unsafe programming languages. I usually use Common Lisp (for almost 40 years now), but I have been experimenting a lot with Swift over the last year. I have little experience with Rust.
I have seen comments that Swift and/or Rust are not appropriate for operating systems and general systems programming, but I call bullshit on that. The problem is a financial problem, expensive to pay for difficult to hire Rust and Swift developers to rewrite billions of lines of code. But it should be done. I pay an incredible amount of money to Apple every year and I expect it from them. Same for Microsoft customers (and Google).