Hector Martin

this thread contains quite a bit of heavy bullshit it talks about how Rust is too complex to learn-by-doing (and that even the official _book_ on it isn't enough to understand the language) as if that's a _good thing_https://twitter.com/AndreaPessino/status/1042120425415700480 …

it also argues that you shouldn't bind to code written in other languages and, okay, have fun on your island over there, the rest of us are gonna be over here shipping code

it also contains the phrase "do without a debugger – you will not need it for a good while" and ahahahahahahaha

if your language is difficult for newbies to pick up and understand, that's _a problem with your language_ like, it's a problem other languages have too (you won't hear me saying C++ is easy), but that doesn't somehow make it a positive aspect

like, this guy's arguing that you should read _three entire reference books_ before you start writing your own code and ahahahahahahaha also he has no idea how to write a damn twitter thread, these tweets are split at random mid-sentence

also while C++ has a lot of complexity, and _certainly_ has a lot of awkward edge cases and footguns, almost everything you're likely to use is built on top of a few basic core mechanics that are easy to understand

like, you can build ridiculously complex things on top of templates, but the template system really isn't that complex in itself you can look at pretty much any standard type and understand what's going on under the hood