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Rust is Eating JavaScript (leerob.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 days ago (2 children)

JavaScript has its place as a lightweight runtime interpreter.

Rust has its place as a secure and modern way to engineer and produce dependable software.

[–] jimmy90 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

with wasm and friendly new web frameworks, the only thing keeping js alive is inertia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Essentially, JS is the new Flash….

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Eh, it's not that lightweight, Lua is much better for that.