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Code Like a Pro in Rust with Brenden Matthews

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Languages

LLVM makes it really easy to write compilers and build your own languages, which is why we've had this sort of explosion of languages over the past 10 years or so. I'm also still surprised that things like C++ are still so popular as well; they keep bolting on all these new features. Nice thing about Rust? They haven't really tried to maintain backward compatibility in a way that would make sense today. Hey, I guess there's a strong case for maintaining backward compatibility, but I don't know if it should be that way.

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