It’s getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    If moving to another language erases 15 years of experience, you probably don’t have a good grasp on the fundamentals…

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    3 months ago

    Anti-Rust crusaders: “C is easy actually and Rust is pointlessly annoying and hard to learn”

    Also anti-Rust crusaders:

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      3 months ago

      ancient amateur C coder here (not even c++). picked up python about 5 years ago (cuz why not?). been playing around with rust for a bit (like it so far). only issue is recoded tools getting released under mit license instead of gpl (cuz, get off my lawn!).

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    This is so fucking stupid, I can’t even.

    For your mental health, have some reasonable arguments about Rust: https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Entwicklung-Warum-Rust-die-Antwort-auf-miese-Software-und-Programmierfehler-ist-4879795.html

    Since it’s in German, here are the key points of the article (written from memory - the article is quite old, so I might misremember - best read the article yourself):

    • Software development is stuck in a vicious cycle regarding project budgets.
      • Some competitors don’t know better and just budget the “happy path”, that assumes that everything during development goes right.
        • The author uses a term for this which I like a lot: “Hybris of the programmer”
      • Other competitors know better, but still have to lie in order to remain competitive when it comes to prices
      • Therefore almost all software projects end up with a way too low budget
        • So we get buggy software
    • Rust might be a way out of this misery, because
      • it is understood that it takes longer to develop something with Rust
      • but on the flip-side the safety-guarantees rule out a lot of bugs
      • so customers who choose to have their project implemented using Rust are fully aware of the higher costs, but also the higher quality
      • and developers have a well known argument for the higher costs, and also have data that shows how this higher investment will yield a better quality product.
    • Miaou@jlai.lu
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      3 months ago

      The first point applies to any kind of engineering anyway.