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0 pointsjosephg1y ago0 comments

Ah, but you’ve moved the goalposts! The original claim was that wasm would replace JavaScript. Now you’re just talking about wasm being another option from JavaScript for web development.

This distinction really seems to matter to some people. I suppose there’s something tribal about it. Is rust here to destroy C++? Rust gets a lot of irrational hate in the C++ community, and I think this perception is the reason. Is Fuscia here to destroy Android? To some, this will be a very emotionally important question.

> Yeah citation needed. The very first compiler release already described it as "a strongly-typed systems programming language (…)”

This is the article I’m thinking about, titled “The rust I wanted had no future”. Well worth a read: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

> Performance: A lot of people in the Rust community think "zero cost abstraction" is a core promise of the language. I would never have pitched this and still, personally, don't think it's good.

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surajrmal1y ago

There might have been a time when Fuchsia included some UI/UX elements to it, but that was long ago. For the last half decade there has been basically no overlap in what Android offers vs what fuchsia offers. They don't really compete and there is no one who wants fuchsia to supercede Android. The only people who want this don't understand what fuchsia is and simply want some drama. Comparing it to rust vs c++ is not really a good comparison as those languages overlap a great deal in terms of use cases and features.

mdhb1y ago

I sincerely hope to see some kind of Fuchsia desktop experience someday.

Even in the form of fuchsia -> Android -> ChromeOS which publicly at least seems those layers are actually converging somewhat.

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