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This whole blog post should just be added as an appendix to the Rustonomicon , in order to provide official documentation for the RUSTC_BOOTSTRAP=1 flag.
That flag shouldn't be documented: it's completly unsupported and meant to be used only by the compiler. Please don't rely on it :)
If it shouldn't be documented, then it shouldn't exist.
Ooh, this article lost me at the first sentence. (young'in, really?) Sadly for me, whatever wisdom it may have contained will have to remain a mystery.
Sure is amazin' that y'all would write off a whole doggone article on one teensy weensy colloquialism of the 'merican workin' class, I reckon.
I don't mind colloquialisms where they add to the depth of the content.
The article in question, however, is written in a circumlocutory style that suggests more effort was put into the style than the substance.
I admit that it's possible that the signal to noise ratio in the article is better than I assumed, but I don't have to subject myself to tedious writing when there is so much good stuff I could be reading instead.
Sure you're smart. No one wants to work with you, just like mules are the toughest animal but no one wants them around because they foam sweat all over you. I'm just thinking what it would be like working next to someone like this for the next 20 years. Day one, you're already a problem. High nail gets the hammer.
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Sure is amazin' that y'all would write off a whole doggone article on one teensy weensy colloquialism of the 'merican workin' class, I reckon.
I said the article lost me at the first sentence. It doesn't mean I stopped reading there. I still gave it a chance and read the next few paragraphs before finally giving up on it. I don't mind colloquialisms where they add to the depth of the content. The article in question, however, is written in a circumlocutory style that suggests more effort was put into the style than the substance. I admit that it's possible…
That is: if you were reading a novel or short story, would you have the same complaint?
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I said the article lost me at the first sentence. It doesn't mean I stopped reading there. I still gave it a chance and read the next few paragraphs before finally giving up on it. I don't mind colloquialisms where they add to the depth of the content. The article in question, however, is written in a circumlocutory style that suggests more effort was put into the style than the substance. I admit that it's possible…
It's telling a (what I assume to be) fictional story. It doesn't need to be some dry technical article just because it happens to have some Rust code in it. Like, if that ain't your thing, then so be it, but I think you're assigning values to it that simply don't apply. That is: if you were reading a novel or short story, would you have the same complaint?
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It's telling a (what I assume to be) fictional story. It doesn't need to be some dry technical article just because it happens to have some Rust code in it. Like, if that ain't your thing, then so be it, but I think you're assigning values to it that simply don't apply. That is: if you were reading a novel or short story, would you have the same complaint?
Yes I would have the same complaint about the writing style.
Like, the style's kinda the whole point. It's a key part of the artistic value of literature, and what makes literature entertaining (or at least moreso than reading a dictionary front to back).