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My favorite part is when it's a closed-source program so the language it's written in is barely relevant to its users
by ndiddy 4y ago
My favorite part is when it's a closed-source program so the language it's written in is barely relevant to its users
- pdimitar 4y agoAny such Rust examples?
- cercatrova 4y agoDiscord: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227339 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26227339 It's hard to say for most because, well, it's closed source. Unless they talk about it publicly like Discord, we won't know.
- pdimitar 4y agoDiscord is a commercial product that makes quite a lot of money though. Hardly a good example. Had it been something like `ripgrep` -- which is open but yeah imagine it wasn't -- then I'd immediately agree with you. And now I'm confused what point you're trying to make? I mean, commercial products written in many languages are closed source and I don't feel that reflects negatively on any of them.
- cercatrova 4y agoI'm not sure what point you're trying to make actually. You asked (as I understood it) for any Rust examples of closed source programs, for which I provided Discord. Now you're talking about how closed source does or does not "reflects negatively on any of them" which I never said anything about at all.
- pdimitar 4y agoAh, I was going to the root of your comment so assumed that you're posting it in support of the ridiculous claim that Rust users can't shut up about it. Sorry if it's a wrong assumption then.
- ndiddy 4y agoCouple off the top of my head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084 (this one’s funny because the team pulled the rug on their users after a month or two)
- pdimitar 4y agoThanks for following up. When people point these out I feel obliged to mention they are hardly unique to any language. I guess I asked because your comment was directly under a fairly ridiculous comment being fairly insulting to the Rust community, so I wondered if you want to point out deficiencies that are supposedly only present in Rust? If not, my apologies for mentioning it.