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Is there a Rust version of Atwood's Law?

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FTI [0]:

> In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:[5] >> “Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”

[0]: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jeff_Atwood


This goes nicely with the old concept that "A sufficiently competent FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language".


Atwood's Law 2.0 should probably be about WASM


And there is a language that's pretty good at compiling to wasm.




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