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Subject: Re: Why TF?
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
>> gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) gabbled:
>>> Rust seems to be, like Python, trying to ingratiate itself into the
>>> basic running of the system, not just be a peripheral "scripting
>>> language".
>>
>> Requiring 2 seperate compilers to build anything is an absurdity.
>
> (Disclaimer: I skipped most of the sub-thread, so if that generalizing
> sentence was addressing some peculiar (maybe even TB-related) software
> specialities you may ignore the rest of my post.)
>
> From my experience it's no "absurdity" but actual (sensible) normality
> to use multiple compilers and other software generators in SW-projects.

Agreed.

Thunderbird is not a surprising place to find some Rust; Mozilla
sponsored Rust in the hope of escaping the memory safety issues of
C/C++.

> It seems that depends on the software architecture. It's (IMO) fine to
> create libraries that are combined in an "anything" to be compiled
> with the (at the time of their creation) most appropriate
> compiler. It's also fine if you use a second language as a
> higher-level intermediate language. Also if you create the "anything"
> based on several components (or subsystems) that are combined. Using
> separate protocol compilers is also not uncommon to get the transfer
> objects and functions. Also using own compilers for the accompanying
> parts like documentation is typical.  (All these examples just off the
> top of my head from some professional projects that I observed or was
> engaged with.)

Off the top of my head there are at least twelve languages in my current
employer’s codebase. More if you count things like documentation markup.

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