Subj : Re: Advent of Code 2025
To   : Dr. What
From : Boraxman
Date : Sat Nov 29 2025 22:58:56

  Re: Re: Advent of Code 2025
  By: Dr. What to phigan on Thu Nov 27 2025 08:21 am

 > But then politics moved in.  The Rusties declared that any program written i
 > Rust was perfect - which just shows you how inexperienced they are.  Then Wo
 > distros like Ubuntu announced that they will replace coreutils with Rust
 > alternatives - which are not feature complete and buggy.
 > 
 > Now, rewriting the coreutils in Rust isn't a bad idea.  That would be a
 > wonderful test for Rust and would show where they are deficient.  But, no, t
 > pushed the Rust rewrites as production ready and it failed horribly.
 > 
 > Then we have the latest Cloudflare outage - caused by a bug in a "bugproof"
 > Rust program.
 > 
 > Rust isn't ready for production yet.  Anyone with experience would see that.
 > So the push for Rust is because they are pushing an agenda.  And that agenda
 > has nothing to do with what they claim.
 > 
 > As a result, Rust has become toxic.  I won't touch it with a 50' pole now li
 > many developers.  Which is a shame because it had some really good ideas in 

I don't trust Rust, because it seems to be pushed by evangelists, and one would
be wise to be wary of making decisions based on evangeslists.

Lunduke thinks that Rust may be in part pushed in order for Wokies to jockey
themselves into power.  If everything is written in Rust then you must abide by
their standards to contribute, etc, then there is the who threat to Free
Software.  I think he has a point.

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