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Re:We need less powerful languages (2015) by anon291 on Thursday February 02, 2023 @02:16AM (#34623249)
Nope. An html document is statically analyzable by simple tools. Html parsing is very easy. Html rendering difficult to code correctly but very straightforward. It is very easy to generate in bounded time the result of an html render.

It is impossible to do that with C, haskell, rust, etc.

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Re:We need less powerful languages (2015) by GoblinSlayer on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:47AM (#34638820)
An html engine is such a simple tool microsoft gave up making its own. C compilers available for a wide range of platforms is said to be due to simplicity of C.
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