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The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving


The Allure of New Languages vs. The Necessity of Problem-Solving

I’ve also briefly touched upon that at best in the absolute best case scenario a rewritten version of GNU Core Utils in Rust would be able to match the performance of the original implementation. We celebrate engineers for building in the “new hot language,” for rewriting tools, or for adopting the latest framework, even when the original solution worked perfectly fine. Or the whole GraphQL craze where traditional REST APIs were abandoned en masse for a new and exciting way of doing things that promised to solve the dreaded problem of “over-fetching” and “under-fetching” of data.

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