Based post. I learned Rust because "Rustacean" is a funny word.
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The good old bait and switch
As a C/C++ person I guess i'd be the Crustacean then.
Carcinization strikes again...
You don't need to learn Rust to be a femboy Linux twink.
I, for one, do not have any programming skills whatsoever.
To be honest I might opt for Go instead; I find Rust's syntax too noisy and hard to read.
The Syntax do be Lknda tricky, but its a great language with lots of great high level functionality. I can not really say anything about Go, since I never used or even read it.
Doesn't Go belong to google?
Also, why do you want to learn programming? (It is nice and fun to code, but the choice of a language may depend on your aim too)
It doesn't "belong" to Google, but they are a major contributor.
I know why I want to program, and Go has everything I need to do that, and I also just quite like the language anyway.
Don't get me wrong but pay attention to the android os stuff and ask yourself if it is applicable. Idk. I just wish you the best.
Yeah, I know, I don't trust Google as much as the next person; but I just don't think they can really do what they're doing with the AOSP to Go, I mean, Go is fully open-source, and doesn't depend on Google for anything really.
If Google did try to pull something with Go, the language would just be forked. But I frankly don't see what Google would get out of restricting Go. For a mobile operating system, it makes very good business sense, they can direct more users to their own app store to show them ads and get more revenue, but a programming language is a tool, not a commercial product (at least nowadways).
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Ken Thompson and Rob Pike. I trust their design decisions.
It definitely depends on what you want to do. For systems programming, HPC, embedded etc, Go is not an alternative to Rust. For webdev, I do get it, Go is much simpler.
Go is neat but i like it when my programs work
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very true for cs in general :3
i wish Rust wasn't tainted by ai :/
Rust written by AI is funny.
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Ask Claude to write something in rust, hoping for memory safe code
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Complain that some parts are slow
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Look inside and see a ton of uncontained unsafe code
I'm not sure they're even looking inside anymore, just asking Claude what's wrong.
I absolutely hate how LLMs love Rust. Though it goes from its very design of ensuring safety at compile time, but at least System76, one of the most prominent adopters of Rust in Linux communities, didn't join the dark side.
Calling rust tainted... Encryption isn't tainted because pedos use it. Rust isnt tainted because AI bros use it.
You misunderstand me. Rust is tAInted. "AI" is used in its development.
Ah, a purist. Is any project pure enough for to use? Is a single commit enough to be "tainted"?
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Sadly - so is Linux.
Yes; I was absolutely crestfallen when I caught wind of it being tAInted.
I'm currently investigating alternatives. Redox is anti-AI, but written in Rust. Haiku isn't really suitable for most folks as a daily driver. ReactOS is basically a toy, and is tAInted anyways.
Of the BSDs, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are both tAInted; Hyperbola is still using Linux-Libre; NetBSD itself is untAInted, but uses GCC (if I recall correctly), and one of its forks, MirBSD, is in the same boat.
If I can build NetBSD using an alternative compiler toolchain, then that would be an excellent starting point for a new OS.
Unless you wear an animal tail buttplug while coding it's just sparkling C++.
We are
Wishing to be femboy twink Linux but all I know is C and C++ π
Zig is a pretty easy adoption if you're good with C, it's another (imo, better) memory-safe "modernisation" like Rust is. It's not as mature as Rust yet, but it has C interop, and the Zig compiler is also a drop-in replacement for existing C code. Very nice language I must say.
Also you get to call yourself a Ziguana, which is on par with Rustacean in terms of demonym coolness
Same π
So, what shall we do?!
Learning rust to meet femboi Linux twinks so I can get them to fix my pc.
Now I understand why find rust challenging to write, its because I have no femboy twink energy π
have you tried programming socks?
Ahhh, that what I was missing! wonder if my job would agree to give a corporate rebate since I know its necessary for my productivity
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Geeky femboys π₯Ίππ
Hello. π©΅
π³ Hiii
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Bless geeky femboys, you're all amazing.
Is there any benefits to adding linux to a femboy twink?
Yes, it makes your femboy twink run better, use less resources, and gives you more control over them. You can swap out different parts of them, play around, see what happens. You're no longer beholden to what Femboy Inc. says you can do with your femboy.
You can leave them alone and when you come back, they have made a oddly specific tool. If they like you, it might be the oddly specific tool that you needed.
Do you want ads on your femboy twink? Didn't think so.
Better performance
Obviously the best reason is because of its really cool type system, especially enums with stuff in them and borrowing.
Haskell trans girls and rust femboys must unite against our common enemy, testosterone.
Porque no los dos?
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