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> It feels like an almost deliberate crippling of progress by diverting top talent into useless avenues, much like string theory in physics, or SLS/Artemis. Yo
by tempaccount420 1y ago
> It feels like an almost deliberate crippling of progress by diverting top talent into useless avenues, much like string theory in physics, or SLS/Artemis.
You don't have to be a "top talent" to rewrite old unix utilities. The hard part is writing it safely, which in Rust can be done without "top talent."
- brucehoult 1y agoAnd then you end up with code 17 times slower than the C code it is replacing. When it didn't need replacing in the first place.