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    1. Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green 18 Oct 2019
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      I love the idea of making a memory safe and performant language, but maybe we could just stop with those two things — and not require programmers to learn a pile of entirely new concepts just because someone wanted a challenge.

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    2. Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green 18 Oct 2019
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      Me: ok, so maybe I should write this in Rust. Rust: we don’t call it “writing”, developing in Rust is actually a four-part process called kerzlbluch.

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    3. Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green 18 Oct 2019
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      Screw it I’m just using C.

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    4. Ryan Smith  🧢 🌊‏ @ChaosBurrito 19 Oct 2019
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      Bad take. The only half reasonable criticism you made was that it didn't have real classes and then you decided you were going back to C. Wtf? I think the biggest problem for rust is that it's still not terribly stable yet. Lots of change going on.

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    5. Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green 19 Oct 2019
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      The last point was mostly a joke. But the truth is I know how to hack “objects” in C and it’s crummy but familiar. If I have to learn a bunch of weird new syntax and still get normal functionality only through more “hacks” then I should use the hacks I’m familiar with.

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    6. Matthew Green‏ @matthew_d_green 19 Oct 2019
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      The fact that Rust had classes and then chucked them fills me with no confidence.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 20 Oct 2019
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      I introduced the keyword "class" to Rust and then later changed the keyword "class" to "struct" to merge the feature with record types. Never did "class" offer inheritance. I don't think you're being fair to Rust.

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