How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox

Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by overhang on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:27PM (#15803388)

Imagine if some company were to make a completely new language just for an IDE.

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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by rafialhamd on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:58AM (#15851040)

Let's imagine some companies (like Sun Microsystems) making wonderful language (like Java), and provide NO IDEs. We really had tough time during the initial years of Java - just with Borland JBuilder and some other primitive IDEs - until we could get wonderful IDEs like Eclipse followed by IntelliJ-IDEA.

It's widely understood that you're referring to JetBrains' Kotlin. In such case, really industry-famous-IDE support for a 'new language', is some sort of a gift!

Besides, why would a company want to invest in R&D to create a language and just give it for FREE, without any tangible business benefits.

Remember, Sun did so... giving away Java for free. Eventually - under stress - they themselves were sold (and bought by Oracle).

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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by signal11 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @07:58PM (#15803551)

Is that a reference to JetBrains and Kotlin? :-)

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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by sjwright on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @09:24PM (#15804000)

Or emacs. :-)

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Re:How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox by BuckRogers on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:03PM (#15809168)

Kotlin and C# are two examples that fit the bill. If that's what you're looking for.

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