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by pdpi 785 days ago
Funnily enough, in a world with WASM, we might actually have Java in the backend and C in the frontend rather than vice versa as it would've been likelier in the 90s.
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The irony of half world backed by VC money, trying to reinvent Erlang, Java and .NET application servers, while pretending to be innovative.
WASM is adding GC... recreating the wheel of the applet but without escaping the problem of javascript glue.

Go is just Java without the WM.

Rust is just a native compiler that creates slow programs and complains a lot.

> Rust is just a native compiler that creates slow programs and complains a lot.

Good morning Troll

I'll give you "complains a lot."

Corrective upvote from me - the comment is too funny
You had me all the way up until the rust bit.