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Maybe, but will they have to fight with borrow checker for doing some other than (the very OOP) DOM components? They'll obviously use both for a long time in the future, so more functional places can get Rust, while more OOP places can benefit from C++
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Nobody uses D
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This is like the "real world" argument. Nobody uses that "in the real world", except well people that do.
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Well, I do!?!! It's even faster than zoomer langs like Odin. You should try it.
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Zoomer is a good word btw. I love zoomers.
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And? Does it work? Because it does. It's a lot closer to C++ and you literally need like a week to start being productive and it's insanely flexible as a language. Nobody uses Swift also, but the additional problem with Swift was that it's entirely Apple-centric.
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> Nobody uses Swift also

Yep, it was also a weird, not entirely pragmatic choice, even if it was well justified technically and all-in-all rational. D would be the same.

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Entirely Apple-centric?
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