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mysterymath on May 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me

You're talking about different 80s. On workstations and Unix mainframes, beasts like Smalltalk and Objective C roamed the Earth. On home computers, a resident relocatable driver that wasn't part of ROM was an unusual novelty.

flomo on May 10, 2025 [–]

Yeah, 1990s is more accurate. There was a huge market for COM controls and widget libs and a lot of that Obj-C stuff came with a price tag.

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