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My skill prevents bugs, unlike your fancy compiler, peasant. (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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"Rust's compiler prevents common bugs" So does skill. No offense to you, but, this trope is getting so tiresome. If you like the language then go ahead and use it. What is it with the rust crowd that they have to come acrosslike people trying to convert your religion at your front door?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes, it's true and a common trope that you can save development or rather debugging time with Rust, since it guides you in a safer direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For me, it's all about the maintenance now. If it encourages you to write messy code, you will come to loathe your codebase. If it gives you clean, easy to navigate code you will love it more and more.

    When I was a young programmer I couldn't abide any boilerplate at all and loved clever magic that made it disappear. Now I don't mind a bit of boilerplate and hate non-obvious machinery.

    When I was young I bought the promise that object oriented programming would solve the software complexity problem, but now I think that at best it's neutral and sometimes it makes it worse.

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