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		Kukumber on Nov 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rune Programming Language Any language that's implemented in C++ already starts with a handicap That's nice to see they went with C I like the syntax

sacnoradhq on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

What it's written in is meaningless except to religious folks. Supposedly, they use lex and yacc, which means it's a toy. Mainstream compilers use hand-written lexers and/or parsers because they're faster and better.

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