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(joke in the title stolen from a redditor)

Context: some Rust kid vandalized cppreference.com today.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

That kid is an asshole because cppreference is doing the lord's work.

Also, I know that language choice is one of the most important decisions when starting a new project but, personally, I work on a highly performance sensitive project that's written in PHP. If you think you need Rust to be performant or type safe then you don't really know what you're doing yet. It makes it easier and increases theoretical limits - that is all.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I want to tell the computer what it should do, not what the computer things I can do. That’s why I use scratch

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw md5 checksum implemented in scratch.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is also a whole OS written in scratch. A very basic one but still

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And a RISC-V emulator that runs Linux.

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