Rust "makes programming fun again".

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Reading about Rust, I'm beginning to actually like what they're trying to do in terms of Code of Conduct. Who wants to work with someone who places themselves to be unaccountable to anyone but themselves? I think that was very well put.

They should migrate to the one based on LLVM like FreeBSD did. That CoC is based on the Contributor Covenant created by the same person who penned the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto. I have a deep distrust of all kinds of anti-meritocracy postures. PDVSA in Venezuela was explicitly meritocratic until Hugo Chávez came and destroyed it because "meritocracy". It led to all kinds of purges. We saw it with Python and the Kangaroo CoCourt vs. Tim Peters.

Read this article by the left-leaning Spanish newspaper:

Rampant corruption in Venezuela’s national oil company weighs down the economy

In the 1990s, PDVSA was a model state enterprise, but its politicization has become an albatross around the country’s neck

english.elpais.com

 

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Back to the topic: I think the problem is not so much the language but the ecosystem. For Bcachefs in Linux, which will be rewritten in Rust, you'll need a specific version and apparently this needs to have both Clang & GCC installed. It must be a bootstrapping and maintenance nightmare. Haven't tried it yet, though.