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All of this drama / culture war or whatever you want to call it is a big part of what turned me off to Rust in the first place. I come from .NET background and
by bob1029 3y ago
All of this drama / culture war or whatever you want to call it is a big part of what turned me off to Rust in the first place.
I come from .NET background and am open to the idea of a realistic C/C++ replacement. My experience with .NET and its "community" has left me with a really comfortable feeling with regard to my ability to do business, just "get shit done", etc. To be clear, there isn't really a community. I think that's why you don't hear a whole lot of drama come out of it. It's more of a LARP where we pretend we have some kind of say and sometimes Microsoft's leadership agrees and it looks like we participated openly. Most on HN hate this, but when you are trying to build a stable B2B product and signing 5+ year contracts, it's a goddamn paradise to not have concerns about what angry corners of social media might be up in arms about today.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoWhat's a LARP?
- capableweb 3y agohttps://lmgt.org/?q=LARP https://lmgt.org/?q=LARP
- jjtheblunt 3y agocool site! thanks.
- sampo 3y agoIn this context, it's a figure of speech, meaning a game of pretending. Literally, it means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game
- jjtheblunt 3y agothanks
- ssokolow 3y agoLive Action Role Play. Basically taking the transformation that made sports into sports computer games and running it in reverse on computer RPGs so you get people in costume in the park throwing colored balls at each other to "cast spells". Not really my thing, but a great way to get more fresh air and exercise if you're into RPGs.
- jjtheblunt 3y agothank you. i'll stick to hiking with our dog!
- mwcampbell 3y agoWell, Microsoft itself is using Rust now, in the Windows kernel no less. If they reverse that decision, then we have cause for concern. Otherwise, I'm sure this will all blow over.
- ruph123 3y agoI mean the .NET community/org is no stranger to drama and controversal moves by some team members which gets discussed over several weeks on HN, blocks, Twitter and elsewhere. For example, I vividly remember this: https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-drama-strikes-back/ https://exceptionnotfound.net/the-catch-block-80-the-dotnet-...