Re:GCC Rust Monthly Report #9 August 2021
by myrrlyn on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:07PM
(#28373674)
> Having multiple implementations is a sign of a healthy programming language
this is frequently taken as axiomatic but there's no actual support for it in reality. there are plenty of healthy single-implementation languages (go, rust, scala, erlang) and plenty of unhealthy multi-implementation languages (c, d, sql, javascript) to go alongside the healthy/multi (python, ruby) and unhealthy/single (php, i guess, i don't care about this quadrant very much)
this is frequently taken as axiomatic but there's no actual support for it in reality. there are plenty of healthy single-implementation languages (go, rust, scala, erlang) and plenty of unhealthy multi-implementation languages (c, d, sql, javascript) to go alongside the healthy/multi (python, ruby) and unhealthy/single (php, i guess, i don't care about this quadrant very much)