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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by helsinki on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @10:42AM (#39617108)
Is that a blessing or a curse?
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Re:Dada, an Experiement by the Creators of Rust by mike_hearn on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:19PM (#39620885)
A blessing. Do you really want to write all the libraries from scratch for a new language? Do you want to come up with portable abstractions that work well on Windows? (and don't think you can skip that, people will ask).

Most people don't. That's not the fun part of language design.

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