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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by coreblocks on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:17AM (#24144232)
Time to put your eggs in Swift! :)
Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by poletopole on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:42AM (#24144539)
I learned Swift several years back, but didn't see myself using it until SwiftUI came to be. I have my fingers crossed for RustUI.
Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by benibela on Thursday August 13, 2020 @11:56AM (#24144719)
I use Pascal

With Lazarus is has a cross platform Desktop GUI

Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by poletopole on Thursday August 13, 2020 @12:56PM (#24145480)
Lazarus actually is impressive considering lack of the non-swift alternatives out there and that React Native still doesn't have desktop support. I'm glad you shared, because Pascal is a language I never looked into before, but it seems like it was ahead of its time, but I wonder if there are any modern dialects?
Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by cy_hauser on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:28PM (#24146536)
>> I wonder if there are any modern dialects?

No there are not. It's extremely frustrating that Free Pascal and Delphi's Pascal are stuck with all the annoying baggage that more modern languages have been able to skip.

Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by benibela on Friday August 14, 2020 @05:51AM (#24155866)
FreePascal and Delphi are still modern.

FreePascal just added RAII for automated memory management with records.

Delphi now has anonymous functions and some kind of type inference for variables