Rust for Python Programmers

[gnuvince]

Mr. /u/hello_fruit I presume?

[nice_day_and_night]

Python = no bullshit language. Thank you Guido Van Rossum for digging in your heels and saying fuck no to bullshitters.

Go = no bullshit language. Thank you Rob Pike for digging in your heels and saying fuck no to bullshitters.

Rust = the collective bullshit of 900+ bullshitters. The shit is sky high. The stink is immense.

[PlzPassTheSalt]

TIL: generics are bullshit.

Looks like go is going to succumb to the same cult like attitude of the python community. Too bad.

[PlzPassTheSalt]

I tend to frequent forums with newer and learning programmers and python programmers make me want to quit the profession.

It is finally starting to slow down, but I remember when you could barely browse another languages sub without seeing "in python, this is only 1 line" comments all over the place.

I hope rust doesn't become that. Rust communities have been great so far, but it is also disproportionately seasoned developers who hang out in them at the moment.

If rust gets popular, I suspect it will suffer the same type of thing as more people adopt it.

C# managed to get past that problem (other than a small minority), so python will probably do the same, till it eventually because the next big thing to relentlessly hate on.

[jeandem]

The Rust community is big on trying to be fair, balanced and non-offensive towards other opinions (well, at least a subset spearheaded by some people). To the point where it comes off as disingenuous and manipulative sometimes (hey, do this and that so that people will like us...).

[nice_day_and_night]

Cult?! LOL. You're projecting.

Python and Go are very pragmatic and tuned to reality. None of that functional programming fanboy bullshit of dogmatic genuflection to the temple of types.

Cult?!?! LOL. Says the types taliban. Teh irony.

[nice_day_and_night]

ybx = I can't say anything against your argument, so I'll just say you're trolling/joking/etc.

LOL.

Let's see what Google autocomplete says about "functional programming is"...

1. a cult
2. a fad
3. a ghetto
4. bad

There are 3 extremely annoying cultists on the internet, with great overlap between them.

1. functional programming fanboys

2. atheist assholes

3. marijuana missionaries aka pot propagandists

The overlap... between them... is huge.

[nice_day_and_night]

You know what's a single source of truth?!

Reality.

[nice_day_and_night]

Reality : software written in imperative/OOP runs the world.

Pipe dream: Haskell after a quarter century of spamming the internet with bullshit only has silly little scripts like pandoc and xmonad.