alt Hacker NewsI laid out three examples of issues I have with Rust in a sibling comment (which I can never remember how to link), those weren’t exhaustive, merely illustrative. The Rust zealot posting (if they ever really existed) have certainly not been very present in recent years. To your final statement, for me, it is not a Rust specific issue. I would not be in favor of Scala being brought into software I use. As an example, Scala also has characteristics, semantic and syntactic that I strongly oppose and so I ‘don’t like’ the language. Other than the saying I don’t like Rust I can not think of the language above as being emotional. Maybe the communication barrier of text on HN is too much to overcome for a discussion about subjective programming language preferences.
As to your, somewhat rhetorical seeming, question about my issue pertaining to GPL vs ‘whatever Rust is licensed under”. Yes I have an issue regarding licensing. But it pertains primarily to LLVM in this instance. LLVM is permissive licensed vs gcc being GPL. I am firmly opposed to the core executables/artifacts of computational technology (compilers, OS, drivers, ISAs, hardware interface standards) being anything other than copyleft. However, I would be willing to adapt to a more restrictive “open source” that allowed for limiting use of software for the betterment of the whole.
If I could immediately change anything, it would be to see LLVM stripped of its importance and dominance and put all those resources into copyleft software forcing profligate consumers of technical advancement to ‘pay it forward’ if they want the product of our collective minds and effort.
Thanks, that's actually helpful (your entire reply).
What's your preference about copyleft about? Is it that you don't want corporations to keep leeching off of open source? But they do that already! And of course will do their best to hide it. What some license somewhere says bears nearly zero significance. Even if you catch them red-handed and can prove it in court (a very unlikely and rare combination) it would still take like 5 years for any conclusion to be reached... and it will likely end with financial settlement and no real negative outcome for the corporation. So that battle has IMO been lost already.
But if you have something else in mind, I am actually interested to hear it. I am rather cynical and not very well informed on licenses. To me they simply have no real teeth and that's why I lost interest in knowing more. Still, not taking an interest in something innately means that one is having a rather big blind spot. I recognize that about myself.
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RE: Rust / Scala etc., thanks, that puts things into better context. But I still don't get why would you be against a language becoming more pervasive. Are you maybe convinced that the PL is only driven by hype and not merit? Or is it some other reservation / protest / consideration?