dizon

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   by dizon 5y ago

   Exactly.
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   by dizon 5y ago

   Rust could have been a great systems programming language. Unfortunately, it has been taken over by web developers. All systems programming jobs are still in C/C++. It could have been different if Mozilla hadn't rewritten all of F
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   by dizon 5y ago

   The problem occurs when I arrive on a landing page for a project re-invented in Rust that advertises not encountering double frees as a feature of the project. I notice the project is nothing more than a build tool for web development, and
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   by dizon 5y ago

   This is misleading. It claims to support TypeScript but doesn't type check. If you're looking for fast compile times with type checking, we've been using JS++ [0], which is written in C/C++. [0] https://www.on
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   JS++ programming language looks to solve out-of-bounds errors(sdtimes.com)

   1 points by dizon 8y ago|0 comments
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   by dizon 9y ago

   The problem with that is you'll essentially re-download the entire JVM (and libraries) on each page load. If you don't want to use a Java applet, you would need to reimplement GC, JNI, and so on. Java didn't work on the web f
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   by dizon 9y ago

   In the end, how will this differ from a Java applet?