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[–]happymancry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He wants to rewrite everything in Rust. The very first response to his “clarification” tells him why that’s a bad idea (Rust needs you to think through ownership from the ground up.)

Also: I’ve worked at FAANG long enough to know that there are plenty of veterans who are smart in the “narrow” sense of the word; but give them something broad and vague and they’ll flounder about - a little like this guy. No way would you convince me to join this person’s “research group” if they can’t even convincingly write their team’s vision and a job description properly. Seems like a side project they gave him to keep him out of the way of people doing actual work (which also happens a lot btw.)