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It's not the first lever an engineer should reach for regardless of the languages involved. Calling out Rust specifically feels like a bit of a cheap shot
by brundolf 5y ago
It's not the first lever an engineer should reach for regardless of the languages involved. Calling out Rust specifically feels like a bit of a cheap shot
- pjmlp 5y agoTo be fair, that is now the common "I rewrote X in Y" theme, which followed upon the Y ∈ { Ruby, Clojure, Scala, Kotlin,.... } from previous years.
- Zababa 5y agoAnd Go too! It's always fun to see posts from around 2014/2015 complaining about how every submission to Hacker News is now "I wrote X in Go", while now Go is the boring stuff and Rust is the hot new thing. I wonder what will be the next Rust though.
- tptacek 5y agoBPF-verified C.
- SAI_Peregrinus 5y agoNaw, BPF-verified BF. Or someone will make "BrainFuck Plus" so we can get BPF-verified BFP.
- pjmlp 5y agoSome GC based language with dependent types.
- square_usual 5y agoNim is on the way up in HN posts...
- Zababa 5y agoNim has dependent types?
- klyrs 5y agoWrite it in Malbolge? Slightly less silly, modern C++ and modern Python are evergreen.
- Zababa 5y agoThey are, but they also are too big, so at some point people will want to replace them with something simpler/smaller. Go has been used for this for some projects in C++ and Python.
- throwaway894345 5y agoIt's a shot at the "just rewrite it in Rust" meme, not at Rust or the Rust community.