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I think the hype has a lot more to do with paid content marketers. You may recognize a few from when Rails was the new shiny. If you look at surveys of actual usage, such as by Jet…

I would not consider the contents of crates.io to be “vetted software”. If the burden is on the developer to carefully evaluate literally hundreds of dependencies, which may each b…

Calling programming engineering in the absence of licensure or any standard of performance for the entire industry is kind of silly.

Somebody with an HN account said that they write Rust for a purpose and company he won’t disclose? Well, that shows me.

They aren’t.

Better yet, read the epic rant that Zed Shaw made about Ruby. It is certainly juvenile, but I don’t think it’s baseless. Now, consider that the core members of the rust community a…

Rust is for writing blog posts about how it’s the most liberating, empowering and inspiring experience of your life. Boring technology like C and Java are for writing software. The…

I suppose this can’t be stopped. I hope someone has the resources to curate a working fork of the Linux kernel that doesn’t have all the “improvements” it’s about to get.

Hard hitting journalism from the New York Times...after Pfizer has made their money.

I just did a search on Dice for jobs. Java: 12,879 Golang: 4,339 COBOL: 321 Haskell: 18 Rust: 2 The Rust jobs also appeared to be blockchain related, so I wouldn’t count on that be…

>impossible to write code containing a data race https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=Rust+data+r...

Contextualizing events with the knowledge that the FBI has shown itself to be a modern NKVD and the “intelligentsia” in journalism are happy to be mouthpieces of the US oligarchy a…

Permanently? I thought the standard of performance has become “reducing symptoms, maybe, we think, we’re not really sure. This is probably safe though”

Article says 1700lf and looks about 4ft wide, so that’s 6800ft of bridge deck. At $2.8M that would mean they spent $412/sf of deck. Where I live, the state DOT spends about $150/sf…

I’m actually trying to say that it is an industry dominated by snake-oil, charlatans and coffee-table “science”. There is no standard or obvious measure of performance, and liabili…

Would you say SpaceX has been eating a free lunch, then? Sounds about right.

Bain Capital bought Toys R Us with leverage, put the debt on their books and it crushed them. There’s a great write up by Zachary Yost. https://austrian.economicblogs.org/mises-us/…

A planner at my firm recently told me, with complete confidence, that on-street parking increases safety. Then I was told that research from AASHTO was just not something this pers…