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The reason why people are criticizing is because Rust evangelicals say stuff like "if it compiles it works" or talk about how Rust's type system is so much bett
by samdoesnothing 11mo ago
The reason why people are criticizing is because Rust evangelicals say stuff like "if it compiles it works" or talk about how Rust's type system is so much better than other languages that it catches logic errors like this. You won't see Go or Java developers making such strong claims about their preferred languages.
- Patryk27 11mo ago> [...] it catches logic errors like this but Rust's type system did catch this error - and then author decided it's fine to panic if this error happens > You won't see Go or Java developers making such strong claims about their preferred languages. yess no Java developer ever said that OOP will solve world hunger
- samdoesnothing 11mo ago> but Rust's type system did catch this error - and then author decided it's fine to panic if this error happens The issue is that it wasn't fine to panic, thus Rust did not catch this error.
- yoyohello13 11mo agoCome on now. You can't blame the compiler when the programmer explicitly told the compiler to not worry about it. There is nothing in existence that can protect against something like that.
- samdoesnothing 11mo agoI'm not blaming the compiler, of course programmers can explicitly write incorrect code in any language. It's not Rust's fault.