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How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)

by Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide draketo.de 7 min read

In Rust at Facebook by Fitzhardinge of the Mercurial team , Jeremy says that a new language must be 10x better at something than one of the (other) incumbent languages.

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