Re: Re: The Case for Rust (in the base system)

On 2024年01月31日 11:17, the silly Wojciech Puchar claimed to have said:
> It's just another hype trying to solve problem of bad programmers. Proper
> programmer with proper use of brain cannot be replaced by machine.

And the irony is, it "solves" problems of bad programmers by enforcing
bad programmer behavior, while only preventing mistakes in areas they
previously didn't care about.

It's clear to me that most of the Rust developers at one point were
Javascript developers, because while they went from extremely high end
with no mercy to somebody else's hardware at all to near low end where
the compiler forces them to treat hardware with at least some respect,
they still tend to pull 3rd party packages for every little thing they
want to implement, making Cargo no different from NPM.

One would argue that "you can't accomplish everything with the standard
libraries alone", yet Go doesn't have this problem, and all it did was
provide a complete standard library.
On the other hand, PHP's standard library (if you can call it like that)
is even more complete, but most people there import Composer packages
for almost everything as well.
So I don't think that putting the blame on standard libraries is really
valid, but rather on both skill issues and lack of productivity.

Like Jonathan Blow said, "it's not like why not caring about
performance, they've become more productive in other dimensions, no,
they just have bad performance, and they still can't get anything done".

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