Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/RustIsInevitable Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/RustIsInevitable?atomcommentsDWiki2024-03-15T21:09:11ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/RustIsInevitable.By Verisimilitude on /blog/programming/RustIsInevitabletag:CSpace:blog/programming/RustIsInevitable:6d7af8b05350b2f9ec9b327e2dfd6bf9ae779c35Verisimilitudehttp://verisimilitudes.net<div class="wikitext"><blockquote><p>In that way it's just as harmful and also just as inevitable as the migration from HTTP to HTTPS for websites.</p>
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<p>Another similarity is the total ignorance of better solutions to these problems. The TLS nonsense obscures cryptographic signing that works, and the Rust nonsense obscures the existence of Ada that worked better decades ago.</p>
<p>I'm thoroughly convinced the reason Rust is pushed so fervently is to make it impossible to build things from source code easily, not that it was easy beforehand.</p>
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