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Rust and "memory safety" is the current form of corporate authoritarianism. It's ironic that its most vocal advocates are also likely to be the ones complaining
by userbinator 2y ago
Rust and "memory safety" is the current form of corporate authoritarianism. It's ironic that its most vocal advocates are also likely to be the ones complaining about the authoritarianism of the current administration.
- wisty 2y agoMemory safety isn't so corporate, AFAIK. I think it's just a current programmer fad, like pearl's dwim, python's "pythonic", JavaScript having 5 different libraries for every conceivable one-line function, Haskell's um ... I never got Haskell, etc. Every time a language starts taking off, people want to rewrite everything in their language. Rust just has the performance and a few advantages that make it arguably better than C for the things C does, which is a bit cool I guess.
- userbinator 2y agoIt is corporate, because they realised that things like jailbreaks and rooting could be stopped easily by increasing "security" this way.