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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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