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I'm so sick of hearing about how "Rust brought cloudflare down". No it did not. Unhandled error cases are possible in any language, and calling `unwrap` is lite

• hu3 10mo ago
  Yes it did. At the very least, something that brings the application down when the dev assumption fails should be called a much more dangerous word than "unwrap". So yes, the language has failed there. "You're holding it wrong" doesn't uphold when one of the language's touted characteristics is having a bitchy compiler designed to save devs from their own stupidity.
  • aw1621107 10mo ago
    > "You're holding it wrong" doesn't uphold when one of the language's touted characteristics is having a bitchy compiler designed to save devs from their own stupidity. The thing is that Rust's promises are more tightly scoped to very specific types of (mis)behavior. I don't believe it has ever claimed to prevent any and all types of stupidity, let alone ones that have non-stupid uses.