
Building a Database with Joran Greef
Software Unscripted
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Is There Only One Language You Could Have Possibly Chosen for This?
Rust was almost going to come to JavaScript, I think. The story of my JavaScript life is waiting for cool things to appear and then seeing them snatched away,. Then we got index DB instead. Exactly. Mojo-Lip Tiger Beetle would have given the project a steep learning curve. And with Zig was almost, you know, he has a language. It looks like TypeScript. But it's very easy to read. So we're not expecting people to do contributions to a database in a systems language. We want lots of people to work on it. If we had written it in Cip or something else, that wouldn't have been as good.
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