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C\. Scott Ananian explains some fundamental and other possibly fixable reasons Rust is slow: hidden indirection, unnecessary type-system mandated copying, ownership types, and so on.
ECMAScript version 5 is the latest complete version of JavaScript available and is implemented in every major browser, but ES6 is in the works and promises a much better world for JavaScript developers with features such as a simple class syntax, arrow functions, built-in promises and the like. It d...
Rust for C++ programmers - part 3: primitive types and operators
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Promises are currently the best tool we have for asynchronous programming and they appear to be our best hope for the forseeable future, even if they'll be hiding behind generators or async functions. For now, we'll need to use promises directly, so we should learn some good techniques for using the...