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lmmtoday at 4:56 AM2 repliesview on HN

Newer web servers have already moved away from C/C++.

Web browsers have been written in restricted subsets of C/C++ with significant additional tooling for decades at this point, and are already beginning to move to Rust.


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drnick1today at 5:08 AM

There is not a single major browser written in Rust. Even Ladybird, a new project, adopted C++.

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RealityVoidtoday at 6:40 AM

> Web browsers have been written in restricted subsets of C/C++ with significant additional tooling for decades at this point

So, written in C/C++? It seems to me you're trying to make a point that reality doesn't agree with but you stubbornly keep pushing it.

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