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		mrkeen 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There is no memory safety without thread safety The only decisions that matter for languages that get adopted are the decisions that cause adoption. JS went without static types, Go went without generics, PHP was just a tool for reducing html boilerplate. New languages love to stick null right in there. Rust isn't what Graydon Hoare wanted it to be. Chris Lattner called Swift a failure. It's all up for criticism.

philosophty 19 days ago [–]

Sure, there are valid criticisms of anything but without understanding they're unlikely to be useful or correct.

mrkeen 7 days ago | [–]

Without criticism there's no understanding, just propaganda.

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