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These people are delusional, they think they can do low level device driver thinkering with just JS...

Eh, no. Not even close.

Back in the day I wrote a personal patch for BTTV in order to support my video card with different tuner and radio settings. It was damn hard for a C newbie like me. For these people it would be a nightmare.




Yeah, and now imagine if you didn’t have to worry about simple things like memory safety or overflow or null pointer checks or so many C problems that Rust fixes.

The point of Rust is to enable newbies to write systems software.


>That's what Go has been built for, but if you trust a newbie writting low level stuff, bad shit will happen either sooner or later.


So the solution is what, exactly? To isolate people and gatekeep them from learning systems programming?


Yes? This is a meritocracy, if don't know how to do low level stuff, head to the College, or learn it properly.


tech is not a meritocracy.


It is.




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