you work on a lang whose tagline is "safe, fast, concurrent" and is frequently compared to one whose rallying cry is "simple"
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Replying to @Gankro
i dont even want to get into that, just the way people compare them is so ill-informed and yet confident. ahh programmers
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Replying to @withoutboats @Gankro
A language can say what its *values* are without becoming totemic. Easier to vet a feature for "safe" than "simple"
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"fast" is incredibly tricky, but I think the best way to understand Rust's tagline is "Safe & Concurrent, and 1/
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objectively faster than other languages that can reasonably claim to be safe and concurrent" 2/2
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Replying to @wycats @withoutboats
imo "fast" is just an easier to grok/measure proxy for "provides control".
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Replying to @Gankro @withoutboats
I see these kinds of things as ways to evaluate new features. "Is this feature fast and safe" is a good question, 1/
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"is this feature simple" is a shit show. 2/2
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I like to fall back on "obvious" as a proxy for simple. This is sort of why I like the ATC proposal.
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Replying to @ManishEarth @wycats and
obvious can be as big a minefield as simple at times though.
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the problem with "simple" and "obvious" is that they require a complete cost accounting (nobody does it)
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