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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by mysterymath on Friday May 09, 2025 @09:59PM (#43942660)
You're talking about different 80s. On workstations and Unix mainframes, beasts like Smalltalk and Objective C roamed the Earth. On home computers, a resident relocatable driver that wasn't part of ROM was an unusual novelty.
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Re:Rust Dependencies Scare Me by flomo on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:21AM (#43943218)
Yeah, 1990s is more accurate. There was a huge market for COM controls and widget libs and a lot of that Obj-C stuff came with a price tag.
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