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Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as

Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as the thing works as advertised.

lillecarl 4y ago
Rust is a feature because as anything written in rust is subject to one of the smartest typesystems on the planet, designed to make you do the right thing. It's also easier to maintain and refactor than many other languages. I definitely see it as a feature, but I don't choose software solely based on this.
- nisegami 4y ago
  I thought you were going for satire with your first sentence. Then I read sentences 2 and 3.
  - DiggyJohnson 4y ago
    Seconded, what a fascinating comment.
    - lillecarl 4y ago
      How is it fascinating? The compiler forces you to do things the right way, if someone's convinced the compiler that their program is valid it's proof of all the good thing the compiler enforces, which is more than "any other language". It's also likely that if you're using rust you care about performance and have thought about it while building your application, this is also a feature. What's fascinating to me is everyone who says written in Rust isn't a feature. It definitely is, and it's going to keep eating C and C++'s lunch in new areas every year.
rektide 4y ago
This is open source software. Perhaps at this phase they're not interested in having you as a user? You seem to have a lot of expectations & be uninterested in the underlying technology. Open source is about more than "things work as advertised;" it's also about picking good tech & insuring we have open paths to the future we can advance on. Your belief that "Needs to be a lot further along," applies to who? Yourself? Everyone? This seems like a great pitch to me, at a great time to get onboard.

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Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as

by r00tanon 4y ago

Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as the thing works as advertised.

lillecarl 4y ago
Rust is a feature because as anything written in rust is subject to one of the smartest typesystems on the planet, designed to make you do the right thing. It's also easier to maintain and refactor than many other languages. I definitely see it as a feature, but I don't choose software solely based on this.
- nisegami 4y ago
  I thought you were going for satire with your first sentence. Then I read sentences 2 and 3.
  - DiggyJohnson 4y ago
    Seconded, what a fascinating comment.
    - lillecarl 4y ago
      How is it fascinating? The compiler forces you to do things the right way, if someone's convinced the compiler that their program is valid it's proof of all the good thing the compiler enforces, which is more than "any other language". It's also likely that if you're using rust you care about performance and have thought about it while building your application, this is also a feature. What's fascinating to me is everyone who says written in Rust isn't a feature. It definitely is, and it's going to keep eating C and C++'s lunch in new areas every year.
rektide 4y ago
This is open source software. Perhaps at this phase they're not interested in having you as a user? You seem to have a lot of expectations & be uninterested in the underlying technology. Open source is about more than "things work as advertised;" it's also about picking good tech & insuring we have open paths to the future we can advance on. Your belief that "Needs to be a lot further along," applies to who? Yourself? Everyone? This seems like a great pitch to me, at a great time to get onboard.