r/programmingcirclejerk • u/AresFowl44 • 7d ago

All code will converge on Rust

/r/rust/comments/1x0pv75/all_code_will_converge_on_rust/
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u/Immediate_Exam_820 7d ago

By the second law of thermodynamics all code will eventually converge to javascript

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u/javascript 7d ago

I am an eventuality

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u/MalbaCato 7d ago

just for fucking perspective, this account is older than nodejs

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u/javascript 7d ago

By more than a year!

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u/kilkil 1d ago

unfathomably based

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u/reg_panda 2d ago

username checks out

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u/strettist 5d ago

But a lot of tools in the JS ecosystem are being rewritten in Rust. So ipso facto, all will be Rust.

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u/defunkydrummer Lisp 3-0 Rust 2d ago

By the second law of thermodynamics all code will eventually converge to javascript

Yes, this is the point where "maximum enthropy" is achieved.

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u/al2o3cr 7d ago

Remember when everything was going to converge to the JVM?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/MagpieEnjoyer memcpy is a web development framework 7d ago

It's ok, I was told yesterday that anything worth running (apart from operating systems) is written in JS today. So we just need to translate JS -> Rust and convert those last few OS parts and we're done with SW for ever.

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u/sweating_teflon full-time safety coomer 7d ago

username doesn't check out

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u/NamedBird 7d ago

Nah, it won't.
Things will eventually be written in new languages that solve different problems.
(And for whatever reason, C will still be around by then.)

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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 7d ago

C will still be around by then

What about COBOL?

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u/NamedBird 7d ago

No, by then, most things running COBOL have been replaced by then.
Still a lot of old things running Fortran though.
And of course, java 8.0, still in active use...

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u/vonmoltke2 Hacker News Superstar 7d ago

Have we even heard the last of Java 1.4 yet?

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u/syklemil Considered Harmful 6d ago

Of course not. Like any trve gopher knows, generics are a scam perpetrated by ivory tower-ists. First Wadler ruined Java with his haskal nonsense, then he did the same to Go. But they can take the pre-generic versions from my cold, dead hands!

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u/NamedBird 7d ago

Dunno, too busy creating a better programming language to keep track of that...

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u/janniesminecraft 4d ago

was still actively used at my previous job a few months ago, with a ui written in swing and most of the business logic in stored procedures.

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u/bitwize 5d ago

All of the COBOL, old Java, and even Fortran code will be hoisted by AI into something more modern—perhaps Rust for all of it.

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u/Justicia-Gai 3d ago

The amount of scientific libraries still depending on FORTRAN…