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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by fooker on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:14PM (#44620709)
> hundreds of millions of dollar

Yes.

> in advertising

No, in hiring 500 compiler and tool developers, developing and supporting libraries, optimizing it for niche use cases.

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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by pyrale on Sunday July 20, 2025 @03:42PM (#44628626)
The Java ecosystem has benefited from way more than that. I was specifically refering to advertising. For instance this kind of headlines [1].

[1]: https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/09/sun_preps_500m_java_b...

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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by fooker on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:31PM (#44638699)
This never played out, Sun ran out of money.
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