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Re:Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust by shuraman7 on Sunday November 16, 2025 @03:54PM (#45948314)
are you for real? Rust most definitely is not highly readable and the language reeks of complexity
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Re:Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust by danielheath on Sunday November 16, 2025 @06:11PM (#45949310)
Readable is relative; it’s much less readable than some languages, but much more than the ones it’s largely displacing.

I would much rather try and figure out a bug in unfamiliar rust than in unfamiliar cpp.

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Re:Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust by echelon on Sunday November 16, 2025 @07:55PM (#45949948)
It's comparable with Java.

It's significantly easier to parse than C++.

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Re:Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust by hu3 on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:20AM (#45951022)
Java doesn't have lifetimes. So no.

And C++ can only be beaten by the likes of K, J and brainfuck. Very low bar to clear.

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