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  • Its about the type of operations the compiler allow you to do, more or less. Like sharing mutable references, that can be independently changed in a ‘hard to keep track of’- manner. Other factors the compiler tries eliminate include buffer overruns and int overflows e.t.c.

    Rust for example sometimes makes trivial things a royal pain, see linked lists for example. It also has a gaping microdependency/supply chain attack prone ecosystem, and the compiler interface is also not stable (afaik, caused some issues in linux). There is also no spec.

    I have experience of both, and i love both, but C is my fav. Its often trivial to imagine the codegen with C, and there are no shortage of quality compilers. The language is also small enough that implementing a compiler is actually feasible.












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    2 years ago

    We dont want a bunch of proprietary extensions to an open communications standard, do we? This is something positive.

    That said, I dont have much hope for matrix. Implemented in python with the initial goal of “bridging every chat platform in existence” is just bound to be a disaster.

    Maintaining anything beyond a couple of hundred lines in python becomes tedious imo.

    The rewrite in go has been spoken about since like 2018, and matrix.org still runs synapse iirc. Synapse should have been trashed immediately after MVP demonstration.

    Theres also conduit, but to be honest, i feel like the lesson here is to avoid feature creep. Safe, fast and distributed dm text chat should have been the target functionality, with a lean, mean codebase.

    Thanks for coming to my ted talk