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   Cassandra 🔜 SanFran (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:50:49 JST Cassandra 🔜 SanFran

   Of all things in fediverse culture, the one that will always get to me is that shitting on Rust is such a sure fire way of getting boosts. The tech gatekeeping on here is sadly very real.

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     Cassandra 🔜 SanFran (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:50:43 JST Cassandra 🔜 SanFran

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     I appreciate the people trying to make C better. I understand and really value the criticisms of Rust, especially after some of the arms dealing issues. But this continual drive-by sniping of a really important project that's trying, however successfully, to challenge decades of intensely toxic and inhumane approaches to software development is a terrible fucking look.

     If you disagree, the block button is right there.

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     Cassandra 🔜 SanFran (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:50:46 JST Cassandra 🔜 SanFran

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     Just fuck it. Fuck C, fuck C++, fuck that whole gatekeeping culture.

     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ repeated this.
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     Cassandra 🔜 SanFran (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:50:48 JST Cassandra 🔜 SanFran

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     Like, c'mon. We can put the toxic git-gud approach to language and toolchain development behind us. We don't need to haze people out of systems programming and embedded development.

     Of course, I say "we," but it's not actually "we" any more. Because what I've learned is that you can never, ever be good enough for the C/C++ crowd. Ever.

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:54:24 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Negative12DollarBill

     @negative12dollarbill @xgranade the Rust foundation took money from Helsing https://rustfoundation.org/media/member-spotlight-helsing/

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     Negative12DollarBill (negative12dollarbill@techhub.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 09:54:25 JST Negative12DollarBill

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     @xgranade Wait, arms dealing?!?

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     Glyph (glyph@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 11:41:34 JST Glyph

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark @negative12dollarbill @xgranade I cannot imagine C people making this criticism of Rust, given the popularity of C with defense contractors

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Aug-2025 11:43:53 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Negative12DollarBill

     @glyph @negative12dollarbill @xgranade i believe the people criticizing rust from an ethics perspective and people criticizing rust from a "git gud" perspective are two unrelated groups and Cassandra is talking about the latter here