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It's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slur (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh, well I can agree with that.

You can like the idea behind functional programming while believing that any application is in the end about side effects and therefore a purely functional application impossible.

It's a bit of a tangent, but if you're doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it's great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.

You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really "side"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I agree.

I think it is a side effect if it runs on a modern Os. But honestly who cares...