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burfog on Jan 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Towards a Rust Foundation

That is common for toy languages without wide industry support. It doesn't inspire confidence.

There should be compilers from Microsoft, IBM, Apple, GNU/FSF, and several others. There should be a properly ratified international standard that describes the language. There should be support from 16-bit microcontrollers to mainframes.

Languages like C have lots of web facing infrastructure. It just isn't all run by one entity. The eggs are not in one basket.

oblio on Jan 16, 2020 [–]

How many languages outside of C, C++ and amusingly, old versions of C# fit that? Not that many that I can think of. Maybe Ada, Javascript?

Java isn't officially standardized (ISO or such), neither are C# nor Python, Ruby, etc.

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