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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by macintux on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:43AM (#31693265)
Rust wasn’t trying to become the standard web programming language.
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by burntsushi on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:52AM (#31693364)
I didn't realize that was a necessary precondition in your evaluation of what makes something "crazy." Sorry.
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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by macintux on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:08AM (#31693561)
Sorry, early morning. I should have been more verbose.

Rust has a different target problem space, a different standard library philosophy, a package management system, and exists in a world where adding external dependencies is trivial.

Java didn’t have any of those excuses.

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Re:Rulex – A new, portable, regular expression language by oblio on Friday June 10, 2022 @08:56AM (#31693410)
Well, Java turned out quite all right on that front :-)
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