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But its just a brush for logic. Yes, rust is better than C++ for most things. Don't you see how ironic it is to write those statements back-to-back? But, and

But its just a brush for logic. Yes, rust is better than C++ for most things. Don't you see how ironic it is to write those statements back-to-back? But, and I cannot emphasise this enough, it is not the new messiah. Its not going to magically make that badly run project run better. This is a pretty basic fact, in fact you might as well emphasize the importance of clean drinking water while you're at it. Yes, Flon's Axiom remains as true today as it was in 1975. Its not going to solve the structural problems that your current project has. Again, reasonable people do not expect Rust to magically fix their problems. Rather those people see languages like Rust as giving them the necessary tools to fix their problems. Hence why they are willing to put in the extra effort for learning and using Rust.

KaiserPro 4y ago
> Don't you see how ironic it is to write those statements back-to-back? Ironic? not really. I'm not doubting that rust is an improvement. > reasonable people do not expect Rust to magically fix their problems. alas, in the massive mono repo where I work, this is not the case. What I'm doubting is the effort currently being expended telling me that rust is superior and will solve all of $project's problems with one simple quick re-write. I'm too fucking old for this naive carbonfibre/innovation token sucking evangelism. rust is fun, great! rust is memory safe, brilliant! Rust is fast, super! now fix the fucking bugs in your existing code, don't make me wait for a failed re-write to not deliver the features we need. problem: "our CLI tools are fragmented, incoherent and badly documented" solution: "we are now re-writing everything in rust! its so much faster"