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took me awhile to articulate why the Rust community irritates me so much, but: stuff like this (claiming the safety of functional code, or claiming to allow you to write functional code) is basically taking credit from the people who actually HAVE worked on functional languages

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Pascal

@killercup

· Nov 24, 2018

"Rust gives you a choice" (not only true when programming robots) #RustFest

rust gives you a choice

either

purely functional code that performs as C-like memory sharing code

or

C-like memory sharing code as safe as purely functional code

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Yup - “purely functional” is a massive overreach - hopefully the speaker can be corrected kindly for the misclassification. I really want a purely functional systems language, but as a long time Rust user I’m well aware that Rust isn’t it.

2:28 AM · Nov 28, 2018Twitter for iPhone

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