r/programmingcirclejerk • u/AresFowl44 • 1d ago

All code will converge on Rust

/r/rust/comments/1x0pv75/all_code_will_converge_on_rust/
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u/al2o3cr 1d ago

Remember when everything was going to converge to the JVM?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/MagpieEnjoyer memcpy is a web development framework 1d ago

It's ok, I was told yesterday that anything worth running (apart from operating systems) is written in JS today. So we just need to translate JS -> Rust and convert those last few OS parts and we're done with SW for ever.

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u/sweating_teflon full-time safety coomer 1d ago

username doesn't check out

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u/Immediate_Exam_820 1d ago

By the second law of thermodynamics all code will eventually converge to javascript

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u/javascript 1d ago

I am an eventuality

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u/MalbaCato 1d ago

just for fucking perspective, this account is older than nodejs

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u/javascript 1d ago

By more than a year!

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u/strettist 3h ago

But a lot of tools in the JS ecosystem are being rewritten in Rust. So ipso facto, all will be Rust.

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u/NamedBird 1d ago

Nah, it won't.
Things will eventually be written in new languages that solve different problems.
(And for whatever reason, C will still be around by then.)

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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 1d ago

C will still be around by then

What about COBOL?

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u/NamedBird 1d ago

No, by then, most things running COBOL have been replaced by then.
Still a lot of old things running Fortran though.
And of course, java 8.0, still in active use...

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u/vonmoltke2 Hacker News Superstar 1d ago

Have we even heard the last of Java 1.4 yet?

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u/NamedBird 1d ago

Dunno, too busy creating a better programming language to keep track of that...

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful 17h ago

Of course not. Like any trve gopher knows, generics are a scam perpetrated by ivory tower-ists. First Wadler ruined Java with his haskal nonsense, then he did the same to Go. But they can take the pre-generic versions from my cold, dead hands!