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Runtime Rundown - JavaScript and Web Development

Runtime Rundown - JavaScript and Web Development

Should We Rewrite Our JavaScript Tooling?

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In this episode we cover "Why I'm skeptical of rewriting javascript tools in faster languages" by Nolan Lawson. This is an interesting intersection between tech problems and people problems. There's been a recent wave of venerable JS-based tools being re-written in Rust, Go, Zig, etc. They come out "faster", but are we better or worse off for it?

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