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I've read this before, it's been passed around the Rust community a few times. The annotated tl;dr is: Chris doesn't want to learn how hardware works, they don
by DiabloD3 2y ago
I've read this before, it's been passed around the Rust community a few times.
The annotated tl;dr is: Chris doesn't want to learn how hardware works, they don't want to learn how to write optimal software, they don't want to write safe software, they just want to write in a language they already know because they're not comfortable with learning other languages because their home language is a functional language (Haskell). It's a weird, yet short, essay that doesn't actually go anywhere.
I suspect Chris wrote the essay against their will, or because people asking them about Rust rubbed them the wrong way, because they lash out and say "This post still offends many who have tied Rust to their identity, but that’s their problem, not mine."
Its the Internet, man, if you're not offending someone, nobody is reading your shit.
- tedk-42 2y agoSurely someone who writes a lot of C code as he mentions has written it for hardware, no?
- DiabloD3 2y agoTake a gander at the rest of that blog, they're a Haskell main.
- Minor49er 2y agoChris is a team of people? I thought he was just one developer
- mappu 2y agoIf you re-read the sentence with s/Chris/The Author/ I expect you'll find the pronoun cromulent. "They" was exclusively plural in Middle English in the 1300s, but, we're not speaking Middle English.
- Narishma 2y agoWhat makes you think they're a team?
- trealira 2y agoIt is common to use "they" for singular unknown people, e.g. "Someone left their coat here." I'm not OP, but since I don't know anyone on the Internet, I have the habit of using "they" for everybody, for example: "WildRookie? No, I don't know their real name, only that username." It could be that OP has such a habit, which just carried over for referring to Chris, even though someone named "Chris Done" is probably a man (although, there are women who go by Chris).
- awesome_dude 2y agoSo, we should be focused on attacking the author, not the points raised in the article?
- punkbit 2y agoThe author predicted it.
- samatman 2y agoChris Done is male, is there some reason you're misgendering him in addition to making some extremely personal and out-there ad hominem comments insinuating various reasons not in evidence for why he posted what he did? What's the play here?