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Rust is now a government conspiracy (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Anti-Rust crusaders: "C is easy actually and Rust is pointlessly annoying and hard to learn"

Also anti-Rust crusaders:

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

ancient amateur C coder here (not even c++). picked up python about 5 years ago (cuz why not?). been playing around with rust for a bit (like it so far). only issue is recoded tools getting released under mit license instead of gpl (cuz, get off my lawn!).

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

get with the times old man. nobody uses rust anymore, its already 10 years old and it takes soooooooooooo long to build. ur not gonna get anywhere unless u can l33tcode in rustscript these days. dinosaur

^/s^

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

great grandkids told be brainfuck is the future. are they right?!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Yep, agreed that the license change is an actual issue

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

not even c++

You dodged a bullet. I much prefer writing in C to C++.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

yeah. I took one look at c++ and gagged at what had been done to my beautifully tight, simple language. it just felt like such a bolt-on.

python fit neatly into a void. then came rust. that got me interested again.

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