Every time Rust takes forever to compile something, I picture in my mind it checking every possible edge case and buffer vulrnability I didn't check and suddenly I'm a lot more okay with how long it takes.
HiddenLayer555
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Not great, not terrible
Reminder that Linux's decision to write an entire kernel in C and not a mix of C and assembly was just as controversial back then as Rust vs C is now. The pro-assembly programmers used many similar arguments as the anti-Rust programmers (it's bloated, it's too high level for the kernel, it has a complicated compiler, it's just a pointless abstraction over what's actually happening at the processor level, it's not mature enough, if you were competent in assembly you wouldn't need to use C, if assembly is too difficult for you then you shouldn't even be developing a kernel, etc). Now Linux is hailed as one of the pioneer software projects that led the switch from assembly to C for kernel level code.
If even senior C developers can and regularly do write critical memory vulnerabilities that can give attackers remote code execution as root, then I'd say it's indeed already broken.
"We don't need TCAS on commercial airliners because any colisions are the pilot/controller's fault"
Except that's literally the reality with computers. Everything evolves and things go obsolete. I'm sure the COBOL and Fortran programmers were pissed when the kids started using C too.
Laptops with no intake dust filters.
Actually, no, any computer with fans that doesn't have a dust filter is a terrible design.
European organised religion is uniquely evil.
IMO every distro should have a rolling release option. Kind of like how OpenSUSE has the normal version and Tumbleweed. You have normal version for when you need the OS to work (you're new to Linux, it's your main personal/work computer, it's a server, etc) and then you have the rolling release option for when you're willing to give up stability for the newest versions of everything as soon as possible.
Gets shot by Zionist terrorist
"Why would Arabs do this?"
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I don't know whether to be flattered that they consider Lemmy a serious enough platform to farm responses or be pissed that they have infected Lemmy like they did with sites like Reddit.