Should I Rust or should I Go

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  1. pyre-check

    Discontinued Performant type-checking for python.

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. flow

    Adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality.

  4. infer

    A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

  5. HHVM

    A virtual machine for executing programs written in Hack.

  6. zig

    Moved to Codeberg

    Wasmer attempted to do this in the Ziglang repo barely 4 days ago:

    https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/17115

  7. Joda-Time

    Joda-Time is the widely used replacement for the Java date and time classes prior to Java SE 8.

    >> Note that boost is also not the C++ standard library.

    I know, but many components that are now in the C++ standard library were previously in Boost or were heavily influenced by / inspired by Boost:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59912393/boost-libraries...

    Similar events also happened in Java 8 with the Joda time library:

    https://www.joda.org/joda-time/

    >> serde's main maintainer is also a member of the libs team, so it being moved into the standard library meaning more maintenance doesn't really make sense to me.

    I did not know that.

    I was just using serde as an example of a widely-used crate that feels essential enough to be included in the Rust standard library.

    At what point does a third-party crate become so useful that it might be considered for inclusion in the Rust standard library?

    Is there a process for adding crates to the Rust standard library?

    If so, how do such crates get nominated and approved?

  8. rxv64

    xv6 OS

    https://github.com/dancrossnyc/rxv64

    And go for practically anything outside that scope: web service, CLI tool, etc.

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