benjaminkiefl

As always the same tropes get repeated ad nauseam.

Rust code using `unsafe` != C code:

-) you can encapsulate `unsafe` internals behind safe interfaces

-) you can concentrate operations requiring manual safety reasoning in small parts of the codebase

-) safety obligations become explicit

-) `unsafe` does not turn off the borrow checker, type checking, ordinary bounds checks, or automatic cleanup and you still benefit from Rust's provided abstractions and its composability

I'm not a Rust shill, and not a single programming language I use is part of my online identity, but if "Rust is a cult", the anti-Rust gang isn't?

Getting more and more annoyed by the latter to be honest.

"Yes yes yes. Brave was founded by an absolute scumbag."

The linked source cites: "...a 2008 donation of $1,000 to California Proposition 8, which called for the banning of same-sex marriage in California, and donations in the amount of $2,100 to Proposition 8 supporter Tom McClintock between 2008 and 2010."

I assume Brendan Eich was already relatively wealthy at the time and that these donations represented a modest fraction of his income. Whatever happened to some nuance in public discourse? How do people who condemn someone’s character so categorically over donations made roughly 18 years ago function in a workplace with diverse opinions,...

... or for that matter, navigate society?