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Rust is the best lisp ever invented. Why bother another lisp inside it?

The real world is always more complicated, since cps carries stack in its arguments.

I'd love to see this goes well with highest performance.

Sure, I do hope we can focus on one concurrency primitive, but the possibility that we may have async/await and coroutine at the same time seems kind of unfortunate to me.

On the other hand, since these methods are not compatible it will create certain split in the ecosystem.

Sadly Vala is not safe, which is an essential defect for a high-level language, and It seems to be impossible to get wide adoption outside gnome world. Lack of inheritance is a sho…

My initial motivation of following Rust is because it is the only language that can integrate into and extend the traditional Linux C world seamlessly except C++, which is generall…

Simply comparing M:N threading with futures is not correct. In my experience using futures in Javascript, it does not support control flow at all. The goroutine's equivalent is asy…

The Windows version is not availiable because mozjs the JavaScript engine, Or say, SpiderMonkey, fails to compile on windows currently, and servo developers can not know when it wi…

> But the important thing, is to test the software! Mandate the world to do test is not a good idea sine the philosophy of the world is to make it work. >I don't think this isn't r…

As a gentoo user I would say that the ABI break may still worth it if it can enable a lot of application continuing to work with just a recompile, right? The controversial around t…

I used to upgrade my Qt 4.x with none issue. For a fundamental library like this devs should at least keep core api stable for a long time, and release unstable components seperate…

There is no guarantee that the good software you are using have someone maintaining it or interested in porting it, which is really common in open source word. For me they are Texm…

I already have gtk2, gtk3, qt4, qt5 installed on my linux machine, the situation which I really hope to get rid of. And now GNOME devs hope user to install gtk2, gtk3, gkt4, gkt5, …

Thanks, now I know I don't need to spend time to study the layout system of TeX.

This is awesome, finally we can get a decent java develop environment in emacs.