I recently came accross this thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34501352
I am interested, in particular, by the comment by vidarh, that starts with:
"You've been given the answer already: Simplicity. You keep ignoring it."
I find myself highly interested in what this person would have to say about rust. Is it better than, for example, oberon, or it's descendents?
I have heard that Rust is a big language. By that definition, a simpler one must be better, right? And yet rust is a big thing, and .. oberon is ..dusty?
I will keep on searching, and maybe attempt to contact him/her/(other?) directly.
andsoitis•2h ago
Standardized. Very mature. Proven track record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)
mikethe•1h ago
I am very curious at the moment about why my post shows up a lighter shade of gray than others. I have done some searching, and apparently this can have something to do with people down-voting something, maybe if it seems to contain disparaging comments. I described oberon as "dusty", could that be it? It wasn't meant to be disparaging. You see rust all over the place. If I hadn't been exploring the text editor vis referred to by suckless, I wouldn't have even known oberon existed.
I am -not- trying to criticize oberon. I am not trying to claim that rust is better. I am just looking for a comparison of the two, from the point of view of the particular poster I referenced. I would have responded to his comment directly if I could.
Thank you very much for your tip about ada. I'll check it out!
andsoitis•1h ago
- https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon
- https://free.oberon.org/en/ (discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38240333)
mikethe•1h ago
fuzzfactor•1h ago
Your comments will not appear grey unless downvoted more so than upvoted, and that grey will be seen by others but not be seen by you while you are still logged in.
Your account name is new and so appears in green which some users will scrutinize until they are confident it is not a bad actor.
mikethe•55m ago
Jtsummers•1h ago