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I've seen myriad "written in C/Python/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Lua" posts over the years. You're not imagining things, though. The world waited 30 years (from
by pohl 5y ago
I've seen myriad "written in C/Python/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Lua" posts over the years. You're not imagining things, though. The world waited 30 years (from the 1985 when C++ appeared to 2015 when Rust 1.0 was released) for a new, viable language in the systems space (read: without garbage collection). That's a really long time, and the excitement around the language is well deserved.
- 0des 5y ago
- pohl 5y agoOf course I thought of go – it's just not in the systems language space (it has GC). (I believe Rob Pike expressed some remorse for causing some confusion about that by using that phrase in early go documentation. I remember seeing him on stage on a 4-member panel expressing regret, anyway). So it really had been 3 decades.
- SemiNormal 5y agoGo is more of an alternative for python/ruby than it is for C/C++.
- jhgb 5y ago> for a new, viable language in the systems space (read: without garbage collection). *Angry Oberon noises*
- pohl 5y agoStuart Smalley, as Oberon, looking into the mirror giving his daily affirmation: "I'm viable enough and, doggone it, people like me."