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OceanSlim | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Rust is for hipsters that want to flex that they can learn a difficult language and then use it to make something that could have just used python anyways. 

Go is a much better swiss army knife. Rust isn't needed in 90% of the projects it's used in. 🤷🏻
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AVERAGE_GARY | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Memory safety isnt needed? Weird assertion. Have you done any security research?
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OceanSlim | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Memory safety is handled by higher level languages at the cost of performance. And no it's not needed for applications that don't require security. Again, not everything needs rust.
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OceanSlim | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The weird assertion is that every application has high security requirements.
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OceanSlim | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This was my point ☝🏻 Rust is great. Not dissing it, but if I need a script to rename some files, I'ma use python. Use the right language for the requirements of the project.
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AVERAGE_GARY | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 All fair points. Just love a good flame war. Writing a web server with a bunch if concurrent connections? Go or Elixir is probably best.
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OceanSlim | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 All good brother. 🤙🏻🤙🏻