It’s getting more and more unhinged on LinkedIn.
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If moving to another language erases 15 years of experience, you probably don’t have a good grasp on the fundamentals…
15 years is just about enough to understand how initializing a variable works in C++: https://randomcat.org/cpp-initialization/initialization.png
What the hell is going on with the kerning in that screenshot? My eyes, they bleed.
Wh atd oyou mean?
Anti-Rust crusaders: “C is easy actually and Rust is pointlessly annoying and hard to learn”
Also anti-Rust crusaders:
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!).
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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
- Some competitors don’t know better and just budget the “happy path”, that assumes that everything during development goes right.
- 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.
The first point applies to any kind of engineering anyway.
- Software development is stuck in a vicious cycle regarding project budgets.
