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   HopperMCS (hoppermcs@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 00:25:36 JST HopperMCS

   So, right now I'm making an executive decision. For all systems programming, I'm sticking with C. I don't think Rust is going to take over the world. Recent events continually confirm that the leadership in both Rust itself and the popular projects surrounding it are chock full of unstable idiots. At this rate, I suspect C is going nowhere fast, despite governments saying not to use it. This isn't the COBALT situation they think it is.

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     M62 Jim (m62jim@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 02:52:51 JST M62 Jim

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     @HopperMCS I’m trying to learn React.js. Yuck.

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     HopperMCS (hoppermcs@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 02:54:09 JST HopperMCS

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     @m62jim Yall can keep your browser code lmao no matter how they dress it up JS and anything JS-based will always be bloat.

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     M62 Jim (m62jim@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 02:55:20 JST M62 Jim

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     @HopperMCS The callback and promise syntax is making me hurl

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     HopperMCS (hoppermcs@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 02:56:59 JST HopperMCS

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     @m62jim There's some stuff they'd have to pay me to learn and not the other way around. I find a lot of apps could've been just some basic JS but the people who wrote them decided they needed a few dozen kitchen sinks loaded into RAM for christ knows what reason

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     dan (dan@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 17:42:32 JST dan

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     @HopperMCS
     The uutils thing confuses me. Core utils is time tested and highly reliable. Yet they want to replace it because... reasons?

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     HopperMCS (hoppermcs@liberdon.com)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 22:56:40 JST HopperMCS

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     • dan

     @dan Rust has a problem where the people that use it want everything written in it. Rust is unclean, difficult syntax - with at least 3 syntactic sugars to do what C and others have exactly one equivalent for. I prefer C, where I can just go and get shit done. C is still rough, but it isn't as bad. Rust is like the rare tongue-clicking Ethiopian language of the programming world with its a'b'b'd<pd>.d's'g'<>.'a'c'd'c<type>.

     Just total nonsense.