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November 2022

27-11-2022
Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

Source: scribe.rip

The author (not me) says: “Right up front, I should say that Rust is very good at what it’s designed to do, and if your project needs the specific benefits of Rust (a systems language with high performance, super strong typing, no need for garbage collection, etc.) then Rust is a great choice. But I think that Rust is often used in situations where it’s not a great fit, and teams pay the price of Rust’s complexity and overhead without getting much benefit.”

October 2022

02-10-2022
The Hundred-Year Programming Language

The Hundred-Year Programming Language

Source: codefol.io

A suprisingly thoughtful and detailed essay. I skimmed it. It's a bit of intellectual play because the question could be answered much more briefly. But the article does go deep and look at the question in many different interesting ways.

September 2022

10-09-2022
Runno

Runno

Source: runno.dev

It has some similarities with things like JSFiddle or CodePen, but can run Ruby (as well as Python, C and C++). It can even act interactively and accept user input (such as with gets). You can then take these sandboxes and use them on your own pages/blog posts, etc.