• @[email protected]
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    111 month ago

    I have heard of him compare the cult-like following Rust has with the whole Vim/Emacs tribalism thing.

    Heh.

    I do think the worst thing going for Rust, right now, is the Rust community.

    It feels like few specific jackasses from the Java community made the jump to Rust, and no one had the sense to slap them with a newspaper.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month ago

        Can you be more specific?

        Sure.

        I’ve had discussions about my impression that Rust’s build chain can be a bit surly compared to other popular languages.

        I don’t particularly mean it as a criticism - of course Rust’s security enforcement comes with more warnings and errors.

        But the novel part of the interactions, for me, was Rust community members coming at me with ‘well get gud, newbie’.

        These interactions are particularly ironic, given my experiences and specialties. I’m an old school veteran software developer. I have spent over half of my career in dedicated Cybersecurity roles.

        These conversations converted me from a mildly interested Rust proponent into a casual Rust critic.

    • @Valmond
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      41 month ago

      Java sucked so much though (and still does).

      • @bradboimler
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        01 month ago

        I love programming in Java. It continues to be my language of choice.

        • @Valmond
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          11 month ago

          Lets have a flame war like back in the day!

          :-)