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Rust lacunae

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 23:24 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Rust lacunae by ncm
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

Neither Forth nor Haskell are considered as possible C++ replacements by Google and Microsoft. Rust is in that list. Which not very long, BTW. Less than half-dozen languages were considered… Swift was considered, too and while some technical issues were found they looked fixable but the fact that there are no “Swift Foundation” and Apple doesn't plan to relinquish control any time soon was the deal-breaker.

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Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 15, 2021 19:43 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Forth scores when you're writing a small program for storing in EPROM or stuff like that. And that means that it's small enough to vet thoroughly for errors.

And of course, Forth also has the reputation of producing executables that are smaller than well-written assembler :-)

Writing a KLOC and more program in Forth would probably be a bit of a nightmare.

Cheers,
Wol


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