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It's a tale of bureaucracy. The tech community simply wants DOM access for web apps, but the committee is focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in R
by CyanLite2 1y ago
It's a tale of bureaucracy.
The tech community simply wants DOM access for web apps, but the committee is focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in Rust because Rust seems trendy these days.
So the web features languish while the committee still can't agree on how to send strings between two functions on Linux. And the committee moves at a slower pace than the federal government.
- falcor84 1y ago> And the committee moves at a slower pace than the federal government. As for that, I for one would ask that the federal government revert to going a bit more slowly.
- apwell23 1y ago> As for that, I for one would ask that the federal government revert to going a bit more slowly. so ppl can be stuck in immigration queue for even longer ?
- afavour 1y agoAs an alternative to being pulled off the street and indefinitely detained? Yes? As someone who went through the US immigration system I'm not deluded about its flaws. But the current situation is absolutely worse.
- apwell23 1y agoi am guessing you personally don't have family stuck overseas waiting for immigration paperwork to move. Its ok separate those ppl from their families?
- actionfromafar 1y agoIndefinitely detained. How can paperwork be worse than that?
- apwell23 1y agoSimilar to why you don't care about starving kids in africa but care a lot when your own kids skips a meal.
- geodel 1y agoBut I have heard it is worst place to be. So why would any immigrants be lining up?
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- MangoToupe 1y agoThe money you can make here can be worth it despite the, ah, societal dysfunction and risk of persecution that you must accept.
- apwell23 1y agoboring tangent.
- singularity2001 1y agoIn general I'd agree but not having string interop after 10 years is a killer (not a feature).
- pjmlp 1y agoThe JVM reference keeps being done, although bytecode based systems exist since 1958.
- v5v3 1y ago> focused on trying to effectively rewrite the JVM in Rust because Rust seems trendy these days. Rust isn't 'trendy' it's established itself as a leading language. It's also not controlled by a single corporate like Google (go) or Sun (java) or Microsoft (C#,F#) or Apple (Swift) so a better place to be.
- louthy 1y ago‘Leading’ is still a bit of a stretch. It’s still relatively niche in industry. It’s in the ascendant for sure, but there’s a ways to go yet.
- MangoToupe 1y agoCompared to what? Do you see "niche" and "a leading language" as mutually exclusive? Most languages have their niches.
- const_cast 1y agoIn it's class, it's definitely leading for future development. The thing is we can't compare Rust to Python or C# (can't compare Python and C# to each other either, frankly). The only language that competes with Rust genuinely is C++.
- msgodel 1y agoRust is a fantastic C++ replacement but I doubt it will replace much else.
- const_cast 1y agoI would agree.
- v5v3 1y agoWhy do you think that? I wrote a webhook recieving API the other day in Rust. And it's my go-to for anything that isn't front end/web framework. It has lots of packages now. And can be extended further as it can call other languages modules such as Python.
- msgodel 1y agoThe DOM is a very weird, complex datastructure built around a very particular programming paradigm. Building a nice interface for it to pretty much anything that can't be 1:1 mapped onto JS is very hard. That's why there are so few browser engines.