Especially because the borrow checker is the point, the added value, of rust. With it it can ensure compile time memory safety, without it it is just another programming language.
His comment should be read as “I don’t get the borrow checker”.
Response of the Rust community: “lets vote him to oblivion”.
Response should be: what part of it is not clear, hand him reference material etc.
This was the same with scala (which has its userbase cut in 1/10th of what it is). Scala is now almost extinct.
I would hate for Rust to become the next Scala because it offers so much nice features (for me that is native binaries) among others.
I’ve had my share of response to honest questions which resulted in comments that I should be using language X, or that I have some nice term wrong (which does not relate to the problem I was experiencing), I am asking the wrong question and so on.
Luckily there also were helpful comments, which kept me in the Rust ecosystem.
The other behaviour is not productive and just makes Rust look like a niche, elite and too hard language.
Be nice to each other. It will only make Rust and its community stronger.
No, but that’s what it meant. Or maybe it was malicious, but it doesn’t matter, because you need to give it the best interpretation. Somebody else reading it might take that interpretation and agree, so write for them, not the original commenter. (troll or not)
There are dozens of tutorials and books to get started with Rust. At this point no one’s writing this kind of comment in good faith. Especially in a community dedicated to Rust.
Yeah… I’ve written about this sensitivity before on Lemmy. :) I honestly think this platform is best for memes and agreeing with popular opinions. And that’s fine I guess.
Bait or not, I’m not sure why you’re getting such a negative reaction. People are getting too sensitive!
Btw, do sanitizers hurt your brain too?
It’s not because people are sensitive, it’s because Rust gets a lot of dumb criticism and people are tired of it.
Especially because the borrow checker is the point, the added value, of rust. With it it can ensure compile time memory safety, without it it is just another programming language.
It is just because people are sensitive. Period.
His comment should be read as “I don’t get the borrow checker”.
Response of the Rust community: “lets vote him to oblivion”.
Response should be: what part of it is not clear, hand him reference material etc.
This was the same with scala (which has its userbase cut in 1/10th of what it is). Scala is now almost extinct.
I would hate for Rust to become the next Scala because it offers so much nice features (for me that is native binaries) among others.
I’ve had my share of response to honest questions which resulted in comments that I should be using language X, or that I have some nice term wrong (which does not relate to the problem I was experiencing), I am asking the wrong question and so on.
Luckily there also were helpful comments, which kept me in the Rust ecosystem.
The other behaviour is not productive and just makes Rust look like a niche, elite and too hard language.
Be nice to each other. It will only make Rust and its community stronger.
That’s not what he wrote.
No, but that’s what it meant. Or maybe it was malicious, but it doesn’t matter, because you need to give it the best interpretation. Somebody else reading it might take that interpretation and agree, so write for them, not the original commenter. (troll or not)
There are dozens of tutorials and books to get started with Rust. At this point no one’s writing this kind of comment in good faith. Especially in a community dedicated to Rust.
Yeah… I’ve written about this sensitivity before on Lemmy. :) I honestly think this platform is best for memes and agreeing with popular opinions. And that’s fine I guess.