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For one-shot programs like Babel, Prettier, Terser, etc. mentioned in this article, I don‘t see how the lack of a garbage collector is a strong argument for an
by philippta 2y ago
For one-shot programs like Babel, Prettier, Terser, etc. mentioned in this article, I don‘t see how the lack of a garbage collector is a strong argument for an alternative language.
- whstl 2y agoNobody is making this argument for JS tooling. The article does mentions GC, but that's just demonstrating differences between JS and Rust. The other popular JS-tooling alternative is esbuild, which is built in Golang, which has a GC. If anything, the two most common arguments in favor of Rust for this specific use case are null-pointer safety and speed.
- hot_gril 2y agoThe article honestly doesn't make any sense. Even the title is wrong.