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My negative views on Rust (2023)

-10-13: Edited based on feedback, but preserves the same content. This is a little summary of my current thoughts on Rust.

I’ve also been Rust-splained, by people with white in their hair, with an air of misty-eyed revelation, that once you “get” Rust’s memory model of the stack and the heap, that things just all fit together wonderfully. This doesn’t mean anything deep other than that people are using Rust now, as stated above, and the “friendly, welcoming” starts to become mixed with more diverse moods and motivations. I think that the excellent tooling and dev team for Rust, subsidized by Big Tech, pulls the wool over people’s eyes and convinces them that this is a good language that is simple and worth investing in.

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