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Re:We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it go... by philipallstar on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:56PM (#47468782)
For lots of software there wasn't an equivalent 20 years ago because there wasn't a language that would let developers explore semi-specified domains fast enough to create something useful. Unless it was visual basic, but we can't use that, because what would all the UX people be for?
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Re:We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript – and it go... by littlestymaar on Monday March 23, 2026 @02:26PM (#47493290)
Python itself is 30 years old. What are you talking about?

Almost every mainstream languages (except Go, Swift, Kotlin and Rust) are more than 30 years old, by the way.

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