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> If anything the paper is more damning of C, C++

I don't see it as damning on either of these. On C++ it says "we didn't want to learn it." Which is fine. Maybe after learning they would have decided different, or not. On Java they said "we didn't want to learn how to operate it" as they feared the complexity of an Java application server for a single small service, which they can create in a way which hooks into their monitoring infrastructure. No damning their either.

However their company's purpose is to push Javascript and they are saying "operating JavaScript is hard, doing this in Rust is easy" which directly goes against their business.




I think you and I read completely different papers. I didn’t see anything about not wanting to learn or motivations of easy.




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