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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by motet_a on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:41AM (#14551232)
Yes. Complex languages are not required to solve complex problems. This is why Go and JavaScript are so popular.
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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by Sharlin on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:11AM (#14552826)
I'd say neither Go nor JavaScript are predominantly used to solve complex problems. The main use cases for both are solving mundane problems by mundane programmers. In case of Go that's an explicit design philosophy.
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Re:Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell by vmchale on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:07PM (#14556129)
That's... not really true. JavaScript solves trivial problems, and it's mainly popular because it's literally the only web language around.
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