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   Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 02:54:15 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

   Rust is a great language, I agree. It does solve a lot of problems, sure.

   But why "it's written in Rust" or "it's a Rust app" should always be the selling point for any modern app? Seriously. There's no need for it. Feels like people are trying to use that to say "look how cool and safe my app is".

   I don't remember anybody ever saying "my app is written in C", or "it's a Python app", and expect "that's the seller right there".

   Well, maybe the exception is Java, when people say "it's a Java app" to mean "it's bloated and will eat your RAM for breakfast".

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 04:17:11 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Vad fan?

     @vikingkong
     Fair enough. I forgot about that. 🤷

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     Vad fan? (vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 04:17:16 JST Vad fan?

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     @badnetmask@hachyderm.io I don't remember anything like this about C, but I remember the time when almost all of the Python programs were named like "py-something" 😉

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     Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲 (badnetmask@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 04:18:29 JST Mauricio Teixeira 🇧🇷🇺🇲

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     • Jane

     @janeadams
     Oh! Good one!

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     Jane (janeadams@datavis.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 04:18:31 JST Jane

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     @badnetmask I've seen "it's a python app" as a big selling point in sciences because people are traumatized by R 😅