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Re:Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contra... by Kinrany on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:57PM (#28021488)
> Would it be better if C, Java and Rust were integrated into a single überlanguage with one central committee to drive further development?

Yes!

They need different runtimes, but there's a lot of infractructure they could have been reusing. It's a shame we have a couple dozen language silos that have to reinvent everything.

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Re:Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contra... by hobofan on Saturday July 31, 2021 @05:28PM (#28021708)
You mean like Rust (and Zig initially) building on top of LLVM? Or like the dozen languages that coexist on top of the JVM?

Rarely does a new language build everything from scratch, and the parts they build new are often progress.

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Re:Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contra... by Kinrany on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:27PM (#28022641)
Yes, but also build tools and package management.

I'm not blaming the authors. It's not any one language's responsibility to make tooling stacks modular and interoperable.

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