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0 pointsbell-cot1y ago0 comments

THIS, sadly. Though it'd be more accurate to re-phrase: 's/just don't want to do it/have other priorities, or are stuck in organizations with other priorities/'

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pdimitar1y ago

I get that we can't always do what we want in our jobs (and in some places quite rarely even). I get it fully and I sympathize.

But that still doesn't do C/C++ any favors. None of my Rust contracting work ever resulted in a buffer overflow.

pjmlp1y ago

And it doesn't need to be Rust, as the anti-seat belt folks always are quick to complain about, plenty of systems languages since PL/I and NEWP days have bounds checks by default.

Back in the days we were arguing for Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal on Usenet, we were straitjacket programming advocates apparently.

pdimitar1y ago

Haha, nice analogy, thank you. :)

And yeah I am gradually giving up on arguing with people who are extremely biased but point at me and blame me for being biased. Seems there's no win.

I actually regret engaging so thoroughly in this thread but once started I figured I'll not budge and will hold my ground. I am anti-group-think that way.

I haven't engaged in such threads in a while and I think the next time around is going to be months in the future. We'll see.

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pdimitar1y ago

I get that we can't always do what we want in our jobs (and in some places quite rarely even). I get it fully and I sympathize.

But that still doesn't do C/C++ any favors. None of my Rust contracting work ever resulted in a buffer overflow.

pjmlp1y ago

And it doesn't need to be Rust, as the anti-seat belt folks always are quick to complain about, plenty of systems languages since PL/I and NEWP days have bounds checks by default.

Back in the days we were arguing for Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal on Usenet, we were straitjacket programming advocates apparently.

pdimitar1y ago

Haha, nice analogy, thank you. :)

And yeah I am gradually giving up on arguing with people who are extremely biased but point at me and blame me for being biased. Seems there's no win.

I actually regret engaging so thoroughly in this thread but once started I figured I'll not budge and will hold my ground. I am anti-group-think that way.

I haven't engaged in such threads in a while and I think the next time around is going to be months in the future. We'll see.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse