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1. Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:16 UTC Be

   Rust makes it way easier to jump right into an unfamiliar topic and get something starting to work quickly than doing the same in C.

   • Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:12 UTC Be

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan One day it'll blow up.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk&t=231s

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:13 UTC Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @be Well C has weak typing, compare it to say Python or eeeh maybe few times JavaScript.
   • Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:14 UTC Be

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan like srslywtf why does C let you accidentally pass something that's not a pointer to a function that takes a pointer parameter. Why does that compile. Makes no sense

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:15 UTC Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @be Which isn't much of an achievement, C might as well stand for Clutter.
   • Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:01:15 UTC Be

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan C stands for segfaults and shittastic tooling.

   • Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:02:19 UTC Be

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     • Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽

     @deavmi You don't need to figure it out if the compiler tells you exactly what you're doing wrong.

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   • Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽 (deavmi@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:02:22 UTC Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽

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     @be Possibly where we differ a lot, I'm more of a "I will try figure it out" person when it comes to compiler shananigans. And don't get me wrong, on a big project perhaps but I guess I will take it step by step in a modular sense.
     
     Not a big fan in those cases (i.e. when coding in C) of RAD, RAD in C is bad, rust probably shines there - I can believe that
   • Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽 (deavmi@gleasonator.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:02:23 UTC Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽

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     @be I'd be to differ, having immutability by default is not a solution for "jump into and prototype", damn even Python works better there
   • Be (be@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 05:02:23 UTC Be

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     • Tristan B. V. Kildaire 🇺🇦🗽

     @deavmi I strongly disagree. Immutability by default is great. If you mess up the compiler, or better yet Rust Analyzer, tells you immediately and just add mut if you need it.