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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by graemep on Friday July 10, 2026 @06:17AM (#48858013)
Elixir is great, and I have recently started using it myself, but its not a substitute for Rust. Try writing device driver in Elixir, or anything CPU intensive.
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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by freedomben on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:26AM (#48858936)
GP said nothing of what they were building. Seems pretty probable it was a web service/application rather than a device driver.
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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by graemep on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:23AM (#48870307)
That is my point. It might be better for some use cases, but those are very different from the ones Rust is best.
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Re:Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig by jes5199 on Saturday July 11, 2026 @01:20PM (#48873825)
I’m building a heavily parallel dataflow system. I thought Rust might be good for concurrency.
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