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by masklinn 1296 days ago
Does not play well with anything else, and the primary langage is Java/Kotlin, even making two “managed” languages interact properly is difficult when both have well behaved ffi.

It would require rearchitecting everything to work with separate processes and IPC, and that’s got some overhead(s).

It also has memory safety issues around concurrency, and its limited allowance for abstractions makes papering over those complicated.