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Surprisingly yes! JavaScript's allocator and garbage collection system is quite well suited to immutable programming.

Rust is a very poor compile target as the compiler is slow and not commonly available, and the aspects of Rust that make it good for humans to write make it a poor choice for compilers to target. With humans the produced code is verified, but with a compiler the compiler is what is to be verified, so the inflexibility of Rust are largely a hindrance compared to other native compilation targets.

parent lpil 26 days ago

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