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[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (22 children)

Yeah, but that makes it sound like they're all equal, and there hasn't been any progression, which is untrue. You're either insane or a historical reenactor if you write something new in COBOL.

I think Rust is genuinely a huge leap forwards compared to C/C++. Maybe one day it will be shitty and obsolete, and at the very least it will become a boring standard option, but for now...

[–] jimmy90 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i think it's more like a "significant" step in language design that could make a "huge" leap in software quality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, until Electron is rewritten in Rust, so people with Stockholm syndrome can still write painful JavaScript desktop apps...

[–] jimmy90 3 points 4 months ago

Tauri gets us quite a long way there

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