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    9 months ago

    Rust? eww 🤮. Someone should rewrite it in Java(!)

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      9 months ago

      I heard there’s an improved version around, I think they call it JavaScript? Its name is longer so it stands to reason that it should be much better!

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        9 months ago

        So I know thats a joke but…

        With Java 11’s inclusion of ‘var’ I have successfully copied JavaScript code into Java without needing to change anything.

        I judge the direction Java is going in

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      9 months ago

      No sorry, I don’t know Java so I can’t easily contribute. There are so many people like me!!! We should write it in python so we can reach a wider audience of contributors. From 13 year olds, career and hobby devs, and academia! Python has many mature frameworks and lots of developers who use them. Another implementation is a great idea!

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        9 months ago

        Let’s rewrite whole Debian Operating system in Python. I mean everything from Kernel, drivers etc all the way to user apps like browser, games, multimedia players etc.

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          9 months ago

          … That also means figuring out how to get python to bootstrap itself. I’m in, just because I want to see how slow it would be lol

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        9 months ago

        That’s called Piefed. Golang and Ruby are still missing though. Maybe there could even be an implementation in C.