I can give Rust to a completely inexperienced dev straight out if high school and they will be able to write a multi threaded program without data races since Rust was designed so that isn't possible. That's one example of many.
Even null is something the creator of null said was an objective mistake, and that concept is embedded into Java, while it doesn't exist in Rust.
Learning Rust to the point where your code is correct is absolutely not hard at all, which is why it's so bizarre when people create projects like this.
LMAO, Sublinks devs are so engrained in Java that they want to rewrite Rust in Java, and their survey they send is written in Office 365? They're a meme.
The Java idea is absurd and shouldn't be taken seriously.
I disagree with the Lemmy devs' political views a great deal, but:
It's open source so you can audit if they're doing anything bad
Just fork it and improve if you have issues with the code they're writing / features
Java is a horrible language. Nearly every developer I've talked to in the last several decades agrees, even previously hardcore Java devs. Please just stop.
Totally agree, but the thing that makes me angry is that many, many open source projects miss this opportunity because of absolutely garbage UI/UX.
Look at LibreOffice, for example. Lots of features that do more than what people need from MS Office most of the time, but even I cannot bring myself to use it long term because it's UI/UX is trash.
The open source industry has the problem that its devs think functionality is 99% of what matters, and most users disagree.
We need to have some project that is crowd funded to hire some awesome designers and UX people and have them constantly working on important open source projects. I'd sponsor that in a heartbeat.
Are you saying "not any more than the rest of us" as in "lots of people own stocks or investment accounts and many of those are in businesses profiting from China"?
I think the difference for me is that he's in a position to influence things since he's famous, and he has a ton of money from it already.
Norms need to invest in stocks to be able to retire or afford healthcare. He has the luxury to not need to worry about any of this.
But more importantly, stock holders can absolutely (and should) criticize the companies which they hold stocks in. They have power to vote and influence their business decisions. Owning stock does not mean you have to agree with existing decisions.
Scamming people who need real medical help into thinking bullshit products will cure them of issues, when in reality they could even cause them harm, is definitely deserving of vitriol.
Fool is a spectrum. E.g. take the saying "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me". It's possible to fool anyone. Sometimes it's because they are a fool, but sometimes it's not.
What does this mean?