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by mynameisme 4640 days ago
Yeah, it's a joke that Rust (which I think will be a great language, but all of the syntax hasn't even been decided yet) is being considered, when Java and friends are not.

Really, this article is about "I want to rewrite my program in the newest, coolest language", not about which is the best tool for the job. And that's fine, but the author should present it that way.
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mjhoy 4640 days ago
> newest, coolest language

I'm sure you meant "newest and/or coolest", or "recently become coolest", but it's worth noting that Haskell is about as old as Python, and OCaml is not much younger.

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steveklabnik 4639 days ago
The syntax of Rust is 99.9% (approx) decided. There was only one (or maybe two?) syntactic change in 0.8, and it was trivial to fix: https://github.com/steveklabnik/rust_for_rubyists/commit/a18...

It's the standard library and such that are moving fast still.

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dmytrish 4639 days ago
It's already been said that Java is a very heavy dependency for a simple desktop application. Rust compiles to native code, that's the advantage over Java.
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