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0 pointslpghatguy6y ago0 comments

Claiming that Rust is a language for 'The Elite' is amusing in light of the recent Rust website redesign, with the following headline[1]:

> Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

The language is entirely about inclusion, empowerment, and removing the fear of systems development.

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/

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arcticbull6y ago

Perception always lags reality, and it definitely was hard to learn when I picked it up 3-4 years ago. Things have improved so much since then, with non-lexical lifetimes in R2018, better compiler errors, stdlib standardization, RLS + VSCode, etc.

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0 pointslpghatguy6y ago0 comments

Claiming that Rust is a language for 'The Elite' is amusing in light of the recent Rust website redesign, with the following headline[1]:

> Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

The language is entirely about inclusion, empowerment, and removing the fear of systems development.

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/

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arcticbull6y ago

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