Contrasting Emacs and Pharo (Smalltalk) as complete computing environments: http://t.co/f3tS1P9gWe
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Contrasting a Rust specification (being worked on) with a Rust ISO standard (which may not work as well as the existing RFC process), and backward compatibility promises: https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-standard/
(The entire Rust ecosystem is run against new rustc versions surprisingly often too)
Let's Be Real About Dependencies: https://wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAboutDependencies
Contrasting C/C++ dependencies with languages with first-class packages (Rust, Go, JS) and finding similar level of dependencies! Perhaps modern package managers just make this more obvious.