| ▲ | foldr 4 days ago |
| If you read HN you might get that impression, but that vast majority of software that needs security and good performance is being written in Java. |
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| ▲ | dana321 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you were building a programming language, would you write it in Java or Rust? |
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| ▲ | foldr 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not personally a fan of Java, but if I was implementing a compiler, I'd pick a language with GC. There's pretty much no downside to a GC in that context, and it gives you more flexibility when working with graph data structures. If 'building a programming language' means writing an interpreter or VM, then I can see the attraction of Rust for that case. But writing interpreters and VMs is like 0.0001% of the programming that gets done in the world. | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In those two alone, Java. There is no reason I would care about borrow checking implementing a compiler, and besides all the tooling, Java also has stuff like ANTRLR and MPS, and naturally Graal is a good playground for compiler backend tooling. However in general, I would rather look into OCaml, Haskell, F#, Scala. | |
| ▲ | childintime 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Graal and Truffle make the JVM look attractive, especially for this case! |
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| ▲ | VBprogrammer 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wouldn't be surprised if that was closer to the truth. A heck of a lot of boring software runs on the JVM. That said, it's a slightly different niche from command line tools. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Alongside C# in more Microsoft influenced culture shops. :) |
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| ▲ | andrewmcwatters 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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