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> We haven’t had a major leap in language power for decades I call bullshit. Haskell, Rust, and Zig (and others) are revolutionary. Also: Rust and Zig are fac
by throwaway2037 3y ago
> We haven’t had a major leap in language power for decades
I call bullshit. Haskell, Rust, and Zig (and others) are revolutionary. Also: Rust and Zig are facilitated by LLVM.
- tmtvl 3y agoHaskell is over 30 years old and I don't know if it really was a major leap over SML. Rust is basically an ML with a borrow checker, it's cool but not really a major leap in power over C++ (maybe a leap in freedom from bugs). What does Zig do that's so revolutionary? Custom allocators are nothing new. And compile-time evaluation has been around so long some of us forgot we had it. Also Zig is working to step off LLVM.
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