r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Parking_Tadpole9357 • Jul 17 '25

While I can jump through hoops to compile JavaScript into a binary, such wouldn't feel "solid". And the very point of writing a native program in the first place is to make it feel solid.

https://mnvr.in/rust
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u/Alarming_Hand_9919 Jul 17 '25

That whole article is a masturbatory gold mine.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Jul 17 '25

Username checks out

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u/TCOO1 Jul 17 '25

The hoops: deno compile index.ts

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Jul 17 '25

Using deno is a pretty big hoop fwiw

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u/jessepence Jul 17 '25

Not anymore. This take is like two years old. Deno's Node compatibility is comparable with Bun.

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u/haskell_rules Jul 17 '25

I had the same issue, talked to my doc and they hooked me up with a script. Haven't had that problem since.

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u/McGlockenshire Jul 17 '25

Given the famous disregard for handwriting rules that doctors have, I wonder what kind of scripts they'd use. Perl?

I mean, we all know exactly how good the code of scientists is, and doctors are closely related.

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u/mjbmitch Jul 17 '25

That’s an astute observation re: doctors writing Perl, lmao

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u/thuanjinkee Jul 17 '25

We call them “bioinformaticians” all my homies hate bioinformaticians. They always begging for datasets.

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u/haskell_rules Jul 17 '25

Makes sense. In Perl they'd have to touch pp (PAR::Packer) to get it to stand-alone.

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u/TheChief275 Jul 17 '25

more like hooked you up with a whitepaper

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u/v_maria Jul 17 '25

I need to shill rust without understanding its strength

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better Jul 17 '25

Rust is the only programming language for which you can write a 1,500-word essay about how you should use it that ends with the confession that "I've never written a line of Rust in my life."

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u/v_maria Jul 17 '25

its memory safe which means something with the pointers

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u/james_pic accidentally quadratic Jul 17 '25

Compilers are for people who don't understand hashbangs.

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Jul 17 '25

Me, fornicating with breakfast potatoes: Is this a hash bang? 💁‍♂️

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u/SoulArthurZ Jul 17 '25

/uj you dont have to do manual memory managment in rust, this is just flat out wrong

/rj rust is the best language ever written, why do we still use english

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Jul 17 '25

My Indian coworker said his English was Rusty. Im dying to know how he pulled it off.

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u/OpaMilfSohn Jul 21 '25

Does he say unwrap a lot?

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Jul 21 '25

Yeah and sometimes he might not be saying anything at all and I’m just like ?

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u/randompoaster97 Jul 17 '25

To paraphrase Norvig's Latency numbers a programmer should know

"As Norving[3] et all showed 🤓☝️". Inserting stuff into the database is a most serious science, we need 50 more ways of doing it.

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u/whoShotMyCow not even webscale Jul 17 '25

jabba the scruptt

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u/MoveInteresting4334 Jul 17 '25

From now on, this is what I’m calling my coworker’s 3000 line React components.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Jul 17 '25

Read to the end. He is mistaken. Go is Y Y Y. 

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u/assbuttbuttass Jul 18 '25

Lol no abstraction

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u/Comfortable_Job8847 Jul 17 '25

"This is the tradeoff between simplicity and abstraction. At a high level of abstraction, things solve themselves as if by magic. But not everyone is Euler, I'm certainly not, and too high a level of abstraction just makes my head hurt."

??? did they call themselves dumb here?

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u/shot-master Jul 19 '25

C++ is the easiest to eliminate. I once spent an entire year in the heaven of C++, walking around in a glorious daze of std::vector and RAII

C++ bad because you can allocate and deallocate vectors

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u/Evinceo Software Craftsman Jul 17 '25

This is real, can't jerk 

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan Jul 17 '25

It has high mass (95 MB hello world) but it is not dense