Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
by zozbot234 on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:15AM
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When you do fully value-oriented programming in Rust (i.e. no interior mutability involved) that's essentially functional programming. There's mutable, ephemeral data involved, but it's always confined to a single well-defined context and never escapes from it. You can even have most of your code base be sans-IO, which is the exact same pattern you'd use in Haskell.
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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
by theLiminator on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:53PM
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I actually like rust more than Haskell, but `You can even have most of your code base be sans-IO, which is the exact same pattern you'd use in Haskell.` glosses over the fact that in Haskell it's enforced at compile time.
Another argument as to why rust isn't the forever-language. My forever language should include effects!
Even rust has need of this. For example, I want a nopanic effect I can put on a function which makes it a compile error for anything that function calls to panic.
Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
by theLiminator on Monday February 23, 2026 @11:57PM
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Though I think it's the closest language right now, ideally you have something that is close to "zero-overhead" as your forever language.
I really like how flix.dev looks, but there's always a little nagging at the back of my head that something like rust will always produce more performant software.
> Even rust has need of this. For example, I want a nopanic effect I can put on a function which makes it a compile error for anything that function calls to panic.
This!
This apart from build times is my biggest request for the language.
Nopanic, nomalloc, etc.