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by contrarian1234 675 days ago
I don't write JS, but the Wat talk makes me want to stay as far away as possible

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

C has lots of uglyness and quirks but it has the excuse of being ancient - when people knew less. Zig/Hare are attempts to revisit the space with cleaner designs

Somehow several decades later something even more gross was created. No thanks. And the "well just stick to the good parts" stinks of C++

Thankfully there's Clojurescript if I ever need to touch the browser