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You have an awfully rosy view of how regulation of programming languages would play out. What will happen (and this is already de facto the case in many "safety

You have an awfully rosy view of how regulation of programming languages would play out. What will happen (and this is already de facto the case in many "safety-critical" industries) is that Rust is banned and everyone is forced to write straightjacketed C89 and C++03. There's already a congressman on the record complaining about a "native Nigerian" committing code to Rust.

littlestymaar 5y ago
> There's already a congressman on the record complaining about a "native Nigerian" committing code to Rust. Wow. It comes from the Libra hearing I guess? By any chance, do you have an link to the exact quote? Edit: as hsod answered below (I don't really get why this answer was flagged) the congressman isn't really “complaining” and it's not about a Nigerian committing to Rust, but to Libra itself.
- hsod 5y ago
  It’s around 30 seconds of this clip https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808083/user-clip-rust-language-chosen https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808083/user-clip-rust-langua... “I went ahead and did a GitHub search on who’s actually leading the development on the Libra core side and it looks like, I think it’s gonna be international because it looks like a native Nigerian that’s actually building the actual Libra core in front of the code development of Libra core” - congressman Denver Riggleman (R-VA) He lost his seat in 2020
  - roflc0ptic 5y ago
    It's an unsettling combination of literacy and illiteracy there.
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