It's understandable but unfortunate that he had so little to say about them. We could really use the wisdom of true old timers in these matters.
Evidlo · 1h ago
A little disappointed that his answers to "What are you opinions on Rust/Nix/HolyC" were mostly "I don't know about that project"
nromiun · 46m ago
What? But he said this on Rust:
> ‘”I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,” he said. “And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!”
> ‘”I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,” he said. “And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!”
Also that Rust is slow. That is not nothing.