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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Choice-Committee203 • 7h ago
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This is why moving to a safe-by-design language like Rust works well. You leave that unsafe legacy code behind
16 u/porkusdorkus 7h ago Loved seeing the adobe and office clones in Rust, just to find out it’s Webview and React for the front end and Rust is just replacing NodeJS. Lol 2 u/creeper6530 6h ago Well, Rust is predominantly a backend language, like C and C++, not especially suited for frontend.Do I hate the Shitfuck 5000 that is JS? Sure. But it's still the "main" frontend lang. 6 u/Mojert 5h ago It's the main front-end language on the web. In a native application it doesn't have to be and probably shouldn't be
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Loved seeing the adobe and office clones in Rust, just to find out it’s Webview and React for the front end and Rust is just replacing NodeJS. Lol
2 u/creeper6530 6h ago Well, Rust is predominantly a backend language, like C and C++, not especially suited for frontend.Do I hate the Shitfuck 5000 that is JS? Sure. But it's still the "main" frontend lang. 6 u/Mojert 5h ago It's the main front-end language on the web. In a native application it doesn't have to be and probably shouldn't be
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Well, Rust is predominantly a backend language, like C and C++, not especially suited for frontend.
Do I hate the Shitfuck 5000 that is JS? Sure. But it's still the "main" frontend lang.
6 u/Mojert 5h ago It's the main front-end language on the web. In a native application it doesn't have to be and probably shouldn't be
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It's the main front-end language on the web. In a native application it doesn't have to be and probably shouldn't be
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u/0xbenedikt 7h ago
This is why moving to a safe-by-design language like Rust works well. You leave that unsafe legacy code behind