Rust trojan horse

2026-07-02 08:32 UTC

BTW I think some anti-Rust people are more annoying than the worst Rust evangelists - seen some of them calling people not using Rust as “murderers”, because “memory leakage can kill at the right time” - but that’s due to them being evangelists to right-wing politics.

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@verstra@programming.dev 2026-07-02 08:39

What? You list metaprogramming as a plus? And functional programming as a minus? You should rewrite this meme in rust.

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@RustyNova@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 09:43

Tbh the borrow checker isn’t a problem for 75% of cases. If you actually need the performance/memory optimization then yes you will have to deal with it… Otherwise just .clone() And if you find the borrow checker annoying in async rust, that’s mostly a tokio issue. Look into smol-rs as it offers alternatives If you want real cons… Compile times easy build time arbitrary code execution trait bounds spaghetti

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@one_old_coder@piefed.social 2026-07-02 14:23

Compile time borrow checker is equal to runtime GC, right…

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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-07-02 21:16

“Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” No, you probably should look into that horse’s mouth to make sure there are no Greeks hiding in it. “Beware Greeks bearing gifts” Again, no. You should be wary of gifts bearing Greeks.

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@Anders429@programming.dev 2026-07-04 07:09

Imagine thinking the borrow checker is just “worse GC.” Please at least learn about a language before you try to spread crappy memes about it.

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@hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 2026-07-13 08:21

Yall bonkers Rust sucks

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