miniblog.

It's interesting to see the "why not Rust?" discussions around the TypeScript news that they're using Go. It shows that Rust has reached a level of maturity that it's a default for some users. Go does seem to be in a sweet spot for AOT languages with GC though.

On how far programming language research has come, and the maturity of tools and techniques that make more ambitious projects viable:

Benchmarking web assembly, and discussing its maturity for large projects: https://www.pdftron.com/blog/wasm/wasm-vs-pnacl/ While it's viable for many purposes today, wasm still feels like it has a ton of potential to grow and evolve.