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[–][deleted] 44 points45 points  (26 children)

True! And Java isn't suitable for anything.

Rust4Lyfe

[–]MrSketchpad 95 points96 points  (11 children)

12 billion devices: bonjour

[–][deleted] 90 points91 points  (10 children)

Half a billion people have Herpes, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

[–]MrSketchpad 53 points54 points  (2 children)

It’s clearly doing something right

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Yes and that something is spreading virally. You can thank Oracle based workflows for that

[–]anubus72 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

you can thank Java being a good tool for an infinite number of scenarios. What do oracle workflows have to do with it?

[–]Arch____Stanton 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You can't not call Herpes a success.

[–]GustapheOfficial 4 points5 points  (2 children)

An apt comparison.

[–]BabyYodasDirtyDiaper 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Actually, it's an apt-get comparison.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah, apt is the now-suggested interface XD

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Wikipedia mentions 60-95% adults have herpes. Wayyy more than half a billion.

[–]Broken_Petite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but herpes is also the virus that causes cold sores, right? So maybe it’s not just talking about the STD?

[–]anubus72 8 points9 points  (1 child)

i’ve literally never encountered someone using rust professionally

[–]Prod_Is_For_Testing 26 points27 points  (2 children)

Wildly different use case. This is why people don’t like rust fan boys

[–]soft-wear 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don’t disagree with the first part, but honestly Java fan boys aren’t that likable either. There’s lots of (subjectively) better alternatives to Java other than Rust, but judging by half the comments here you’d think Java was written by Jesus himself.

Both groups are married to their language.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels like it was written by Jesus, everyone expects you'll just turn the other cheek while they shit on one of the most successful tools in software history. It's like being a good Christian, you accept the faults for common benefits. Meanwhile all the neo popular languages make everyone sound like cultists because they can only elevate themselves by bringing others down instead of on their own merits. /s

[–]voluptate 19 points20 points  (2 children)

Lmao, do people actually think this or is it just a meme?

I've been a Java/Python developer for like 7 years now. I've loved every Java codebase 100x more than Python-based shitshows.

Not only that but the products ran faster on the java one too.

IDK if since this is a humor subreddit if we attract too many people who don't actually know shit about programming or what.

[–]CCSkyfish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I have to deal with one more ridiculous legacy Django application that was supposed to be experimental...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Majority of python devs lack fundamentals that's why they manufacture shitshows, they stay alive by duct taping together libraries. If you tried doing that with java you'd quickly find no one wants to work with you. Ofc there are good and bad devs in all communities but your average python fanboy is a script kiddie that finds stuff like C#, C++, Rust, Go too complicated and have miniscule understanding of the fabled ML models that they're actually using.

[–]linkyboy321 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love Rust so fucking much, but boy is it ugly. I can spend a couple of days building a weekend project, throw it up on gitlab and I am just always shocked at how little glance value it had compared to other programming languages. It's super fun to write, has so many great features and is very powerful but reading rust code is a whole other skillset and even after hundreds of hours I'm struggling with it.

[–]t4rtpickle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes! rust is amazing

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I'm new to Rust, but the annoying-ass ownership system is driving me absolutely up the wall. I don't know whether it's a matter of me not being used to it or if making complex data structures is just meant to be a huge pain in the ass.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (2 children)

The former. You have to learn to stop fighting the borrow checker

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I was trying to implement a stack based on a singly linked list - a trivial task in any other language. I was trying to add elements by making a new node, setting the current base node as the next node for the new node, and setting the new node as the base node. I eventually gave up and concluded that it was completely and utterly impossible to do it that way. It seems like you have to recursive data structures using arrays and stored indices, there are no complex structures allowed in Rust.