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[–] 22 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.

Any time Rust is brought up in Phoronix, half of the comments are bad-faith idiots making strawmen and whataboutism arguments amounting to "skill issue, C is 300% safe and nobody needs better" and thinly-veiled contrarian antagonism against Rust because it's popular.

A comment section worse than that? Impressive.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The more I scrolled through the comments, the more I longed for the familiar comfort of the braindead phoronix forums. It's one thing to be convinced that C is the peak of programming language design (sometimes without having ever written a productive line of code), but it's another thing entirely to be convinced that Rust is some sort of figurative (or even literal) trojan horse pushed by a global woke conspiracy and/or connected to the "planned release" of COVID-19.

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