I used to call myself a Rust hater, but really I was doing it just to compensate for the perceivable fanboyism e.g. Rust tops on stackoverflow surveys as most-loved language. There are many reasons to hate C++, and I hate C++ too. Lots of people were waiting for a better programming language, but got Rust instead.
There are several core problems with Rust:
Pretty much every person today by the age of 25 year has several teeth with fillings. I actually knew few people who already lost a tooth by that time (i.e. depulped tooth, refused to put a crown, tooth cracked).
It’s astonishing that galley slaves and other malnutritioned people actually had no problem with teeth. Yeah, they did not live long, but what I want to emphasize is that there is nothing forcing you to have cavities in teeth. It is also well known that dental caries epidemic started approximately the same time as sedentary agriculture.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0/fulltext — RETRACTED: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children
Modern CPU-s suck horribly. All we were able to do in 30 years is to finally switch to a weak memory model and partially reduced instruction set…
There is a big project for TypeScript called Effect (https://effect.website/). I think their motto should be “we will sacrifice everything to not employ BEAM”.…
I’m a bit late with a reaction, but I quited frontend development right when the madness hit the peak and it’s worth taking a glance back. It’s sad to conclude that madness won: we officially have approx 50-100 different JS-related frameworks…