Comment by iknowstuff

6 months ago

> There is this dumb belief stemming from lack of proper CS education that any code you write can just randomly have memory safety issues.

lol. this take is hilarious in the face of the article you are commenting on. holy cognitive dissonance.

> The downsides of Rust is that its ownership semantics are often cumbersome to write

skill issue

>skill issue

Lol, this is actually very ironic considering Rust is handholding you because you don't have the skills to write memory safe code.

Like I said in my other posts, Rust makes sense in very niche situations. The article just proves that it works for the niche case where its applicable. That doesn't mean Rust automatically wins.

  • Readers, feast your eyes on direct evidence of how facts don’t change people’s minds. You can almost see him putting fingers in his ears and going lalala