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"Rust as both language and community is so preoccupied with avoiding problems at all cost that it completely loses sight of what matters, delivering an experience that is so good that whatever problems are there aren't really important."

Eh, I'm being mugged by Rust-lovers. But as soon as I read Dijkstra's snotty remark about how making mistakes is the opposite of easy (!?) I had an intuitive reaction of "balls". Maybe that was a mistake, but it came easy.