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		kaba0 on April 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Hare programming language But they are nowhere near the same niche. Go is much much closer to JS than to Rust by design, it just mimics being lower-level. System level programming almost by definition requires quite a bit of complexity, and you can’t hide it no matter how elegant your abstraction is. Essential complexity is non-reduceable:

pjmlp on April 26, 2022 [–]

I would assert that writing compilers, linkers, hypervisors, unikernels, GPU debuggers, cloud infrastructure, is system level programming.

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