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I'm somewhat of an old school guy. My first programming languages were BASIC and C, if they counts. While I'm not personally particularly fond of Rust, I do respect it and think it should live in the (mastodon.online)
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I'm somewhat of an old school guy. My first programming languages were BASIC and C, if they counts. While I'm not personally particularly fond of Rust, I do respect it and think it should live in the #Linux kernel where it's the right tool for the job. While it is relatively new compared to C, it isn't actually new at all by #programming standards. I remember going through a #Rust tutorial with a Mozilla dev at OSCON a little shy of a decade ago.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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BASIC counts.

But, I would never put Rust into the core of the Linux kernel. Just drivers.

#Linux #C #Rust

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I meant more in the sense of it that counts for me being an older programmer. COBOL and FORTRAN are older than C and BASIC and there are plenty of COBOL and FORTRAN devs about around Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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Ever use RPG? Nasty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@SpaceLifeForm I still have the original working floppies and manuals for Personal Pearl* for the Osborne One that my grandfather bought in the early 1980s to manage his machine shop and fabrication business.

*This is not a typo. I'm not talking about Perl.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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If WiFi and Cell radio existed back then, then almost like a modern cell phone.

Screen size would be comparable.