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Re:Rust vs. Go by jdormit on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:04PM (#13432620)
Why? Rust is a systems-level language. It's not designed for scripting. If that's what you want, use Python/bash/{yourFavoriteScriptingLanguage}.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by ch4s3 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:50PM (#13433107)
Well, if you can interpret it then its easy to build a repl, and repls are nice.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by fiedzia on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:11AM (#13540792)
"being interpreted" in not enough to have useful repl. You also need to be dynamic and introspectable. There are interpreters for C, but it doesn't make it suitable to use with repl.
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Re:Rust vs. Go by baq on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:55AM (#13434211)
there's nothing bad about interpreting a systems language. there are C interpreters available, too. i'd argue it'd be a very useful feature since the compile times of rust are one of its biggest pain points right now.
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