I actually appreciate domain-specific programming languages. It's fine (for me) that JS is the native front-end language. It's fine that Rust targets systems and embedded. I love that Python is a middle ground, and really great backends are built on it. I'm great with C being a really low level language that forces me to think about the machine.
Taking "I'm productive in it so it is great" to an extreme, we end up seeing precisely the kind of domain crossover TFA hints at. Somehow, since Rust is cool, it should be the future of web / in-browser[1]. Somehow, since JS is popular and easy to use, it should be on the james web space telescope[2]. Somehow, since browsers are well accepted, node.js is a reasonable benchmark for embedded systems performance [3]
GTFO with that. That is how we get language bloat and the many overlapping frameworks that creep into the language and make it unrecognizable. I'm looking at you, Tokio and D3.
1. https://leerob.io/blog/rust
2. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bglvey/the_9bn...
3. https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/
Taking "I'm productive in it so it is great" to an extreme, we end up seeing precisely the kind of domain crossover TFA hints at. Somehow, since Rust is cool, it should be the future of web / in-browser[1]. Somehow, since JS is popular and easy to use, it should be on the james web space telescope[2]. Somehow, since browsers are well accepted, node.js is a reasonable benchmark for embedded systems performance [3]
GTFO with that. That is how we get language bloat and the many overlapping frameworks that creep into the language and make it unrecognizable. I'm looking at you, Tokio and D3.
1. https://leerob.io/blog/rust
2. https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bglvey/the_9bn...
3. https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/