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Disclaimer: I pretty much don't like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 44 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

And some people pretend Rust is literally Satan, because the Code of Conduct, meanwhile companies like Twitter use it, projects like Ladybird use it, etc.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The Linux Kernel uses it too. Its not a hype, and adoption is happening in real time.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I know. My main grief with it is that it should have been a memory safe language closer in looks and paradigm with C, but many of those alternatives are still new. Would have solved some of the drama surrounding Rust integration.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Can 100% agree with it. Rusts type system is very unique and quite unusual especially when coming from C