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qseratoday at 1:46 PM1 replyview on HN

There is a third kind. Those who want to have a lot of fun by using their imagination to come up with interesting ways build something, but in rust, the borrow checker often won't have any of it.

In rust you have to learn and internalize lot of the non-intutive borrow checker reasoning to remain sane. If you remember to spend a fraction of that effort to remember the "unsafe" things you could end up doing in C, then I think most people would be fine.

But rust enforces it, which is good for a small fraction of all software that is being written. But "Rust for everything!?"..Give me a fucking break!


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MangoToupetoday at 4:34 PM

This persona is the heart and soul of the "weirdly emotional about languages" archetype along with ruby fanatics. Look, y'all have notable and significant value, but only in very specific and unusual circumstances