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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by keymone on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:07AM (#29391674)
You'd have to torture me before I would make a conscious choice to pick JS over Clojure.
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by michaelcampbell on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:43AM (#29393334)
It sounds like that's exactly what happened to the GP.
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by keymone on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:09PM (#29396110)
GP didn’t pick JS for a rewrite either, so yes, I’m pretty sure GP is with me on that.
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by xfer on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:16AM (#29401221)
Yes they did, maybe take a look at the repo, the core vt layer is rust everything around it is in js(it's not cljs, you might ponder why not).
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by keymone on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @07:06AM (#29402933)
Well sure, but the important parts aren’t in JS. I can understand the argument that to provide npm library you may need to touch that garbage of a language, I’m just happy others do it for me.
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by xfer on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:06PM (#29412051)
The entire project used to be cljs, so obviously it's done on purpose, that is stated in the article.
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Re:4x Smaller, 50x Faster by keymone on Thursday December 02, 2021 @03:48AM (#29413887)
what is done on purpose?
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