At this point the people complaining about Rust at every opportunity have become more annoying than the “rewrite it in Rust” people ever were
Disclaimer: Below is my weird effort to step in the shoes of an insecure person who attacks change and holds on to their ways as a means to maintain their appearance of superiority:
The rust hate of this flavour feels more like its about shitting on “the left” and progressive ideas than about any kind of programming language intricacies.
My reason for saying this is the reference to Lunduke, and then in an issue tracker where it is very easy and painfully obvious that its a dependency mismatch due to updates talking about “culture” as if breakages like this don’t happen daily.
Rust is a community grown language that is inclusive. Which seems to irk conservatives who hate any kind of inclusivity or changing what’s cool and hip. C programming seems to be the unfortunate oasis that is corrupted and repurposed for enforcing delusions of grandeur and superiority complexes.
Rust is the first popular answer to memory problems in C which the supposed “elite hacker 10x” privileged types were using as a yard stick to “other” supposedly “mediocre” engineers. Any yard stick can be used to beat people they don’t consider in their in-group.
You’re spot on. The same people complain endlessly about Rust being used in the Linux kernel, even though the actual experts are happy with it. It’s just culture war bullshit.
I didn’t know how much of a change Lunduke had had until recently, when I watched a video by Nicco. I used to watch his Linux Sucks videos 4-5 years ago, and he genuinely seemed like a chill dude.
Why no ones seems to remind this person that they are using a GPL V3 software? Like they say “you broke my stuff you should have fixed it within a day” while in the same time the license state (scream?) all over the place :
- Disclaimer of Warranty.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
Do it. DO IT



