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   Sergey Bugaev (bugaevc@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:39:09 JST Sergey Bugaev

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   (time for another rust shitpost 🙃)

   When packaging and using an app, I don't particularly care whether the developer had access to "associated type constructors" or "unboxed closures" or "if-let chains" when they were writing the app.

   I do care if the build takes 30 minutes instead of 30 seconds, if the binary sizes are 10x of what's expected and reasonable, if the app vendors and bundles an ungodly number of random libraries with questionable origins & supply chains.

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     Sergey Bugaev (bugaevc@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 15:39:10 JST Sergey Bugaev

     What systems developers want:

     🤷 algebraic data types
     🤷 trait-based generics
     🤷 Hindley–Milner type system
     ❌ npm-style package ecosystem
     ❌ language-specific build system

     ✅ shared libraries, dynamic linking
     ✅ stable, well-defined ABI
     ✅ precise control over symbols (exports, versioning, visibility, relocations)
     ✅ seamless FFI with C and C++

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