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I'm so bored with all this reactionary tech. I don't understand the urge to reinvent everything from first principles while ignoring the last 30 years of advanc
by jordemort 4y ago
I'm so bored with all this reactionary tech. I don't understand the urge to reinvent everything from first principles while ignoring the last 30 years of advances in computing. I was alive back then. Things weren't actually better.
- bccdee 4y agoI think it's simple: People don't want something like Python or Java, which improves on old stuff with a big runtime, and they don't want something like Rust, which improves on old stuff with lots of complicated static checking. You can't write an OS in Python, and Rust isn't simple, which these people really want. So throw away the runtime, throw away the fancy compiler checks, and you just have a slightly nicer C.