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    1. every hero is a policy failure‏ @myrrlyn 25 Mar 2019
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      "are you a Catholic circa 1500 because that's some bad fuckin’ faith" is a real sentence I exclaimed upon reading an article today

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    2. Patricia Aas‏ @pati_gallardo 25 Mar 2019
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      Gosh, I want to read this now 😂

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    3. postmodern girl‏ @strega_nil 25 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @pati_gallardo @myrrlyn

      same!

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    4. Ivo Georgiev‏ @Ivshti 25 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @strega_nil @pati_gallardo @myrrlyn

      Can someone post the link already please?

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    5. every hero is a policy failure‏ @myrrlyn 25 Mar 2019
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      Have fun! https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html …

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    6. Patricia Aas‏ @pati_gallardo 25 Mar 2019
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      I love how he manages to diss both C++ and Rust and then offends Rust folks by saying Rust is a language made by C++ programmers 😂 sorry 😐

      3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    7. postmodern girl‏ @strega_nil 25 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @pati_gallardo @myrrlyn @Ivshti

      I mean, it's kind of true

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    8. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 27 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @strega_nil @pati_gallardo and

      yeah rust is what it is because it was in part built by browser engineers. also built by type theorists and functional programmers, but the browser engineer influence is real and important and crucial to rust's development

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    9. Manish‏ @ManishEarth 27 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @ManishEarth @pati_gallardo and

      i doubt anyone in rust would be offended by the implication that rust is built by c++ folks :)

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    10. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 27 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @ManishEarth @pati_gallardo and

      I mean…I was coming out of grad school back then with a huge distaste for C++. I much preferred C over C++ at the time.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 27 Mar 2019
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      Replying to @pcwalton @ManishEarth and

      So I do kind of find it annoying when people from the C camp criticize Rust as “oh, it’s just a language made by C++ fans who don’t understand the beauty of C”. Uh, no. I really disliked C++.

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        2. JF Bastien‏ @jfbastien 27 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @pcwalton @ManishEarth and

          Oh really? I would have sworn that you loved C++ 🤔😂

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        3. Domenic Denicola‏ @domenic 27 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @jfbastien @pcwalton and

          Can confirm, as a long-time follower of @pcwalton's tweets, I am quite sure he loves C++ and wants people to write as many programs in it as possible.

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        1. postmodern girl‏ @strega_nil 27 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @pcwalton @ManishEarth and

          Fair enough, although modern C++ really invented the idea of value oriented programming without GC, and that's what I'd argue the big idea of Rust is based on.

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        1. Marijn Haverbeke‏ @MarijnJH 27 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @pcwalton @slava_pestov and

          Yeah, that was a weird take. I don't remember anyone on the team ever holding up c++ as an example to be emulated.

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        1. Michael Grunder‏ @grumi78 27 Mar 2019
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          Replying to @pcwalton @ManishEarth and

          C is my all-time favorite language and I still dislike C++. That said, I'm a huge fan of Rust and am convinced it's the future. Doesn't need to be a war though. They can happily coexist!

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