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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by wongarsu on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @03:42PM (#15801316)
A classic example would be Erlang, which was developed at Ericsson for use in telephone exchanges.
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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by pohl on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:12AM (#15807897)
Thank you for posting this. I was just about to post a question to which this is a good answer:

When was the last time someone invented a programming language in order to make a thing, and succeeded? Was it C/Unix?

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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by aidenn0 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @05:13PM (#15802359)
The environment in which Erlang was developed was very different from the environment today. There were no third-party 4GLs available targeting the niche that Ericsson wanted, and there are good reasons to not want to use C in a telephone exchange.
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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by tormeh on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:35PM (#15811933)
They tried using C++, I think.
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