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Re:The Hare programming language by kaba0 on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:38AM (#31153122)
But they are nowhere near the same niche. Go is much much closer to JS than to Rust by design, it just mimics being lower-level.

System level programming almost by definition requires quite a bit of complexity, and you can’t hide it no matter how elegant your abstraction is. Essential complexity is non-reduceable:

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Re:The Hare programming language by pjmlp on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:59AM (#31165627)
I would assert that writing compilers, linkers, hypervisors, unikernels, GPU debuggers, cloud infrastructure, is system level programming.
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