• Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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    8 days ago
    1. It’s statically compiled and isn’t dependent on system binaries and won’t break if there if the system has the wrong version like C/C++, allowing you to distribute it as a single binary without any other installation steps

    You can do that with C++ too.

    1. Still produces fairly small binaries unlike languages like Java or C# (because of the VM)

    I mean, the jars are actually pretty small; but also I really don’t get the storage argument. I mean we live in a world where people happily download a 600 MB discord client.

    1. Is a modern language with a good build system (It’s like night and day compared to CMake)

    Meson exists … as do others.

    1. And I just like how the language works (errors as values etc.)

    Fair enough; though why? What’s wrong with exceptions?

    I work in a code base where I can’t use exceptions because certain customers can’t use exceptions, and I regularly wish I could because errors as values is so tedious.