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First Release Candidate for the resurrected BeanShell project is now available.

Who tinkled in your corn-flakes?

That needs to be updated... Beany is ALv2 :)

After a long hiatus, BeanShell3 is back on schedule.

LibreOffice suffers from an extreme inferiority complex, which is why they overreact and get overly defensive about _everything_.

I still have 2 of these.

I think people are missing the main point. The real issue with Rust is that it is a designed language which is really tuned and optimized for a specific use case. And for that specific usage, it is really, really good. But even so, it requires a lot more up-front work, due to the limitations and restrictions it imposes.

But it is NOT a good general purpose language. And, maybe to be putting words into the author's mouth, that is their main beef. That every seems to be pushing "Rust All Things" even when it makes no sense, and even if there are much better alternatives available.

So for such comments as "so what about compile time", the issue is that for some, compile time _is a concern_. If it isn't for you, great. But you just can't discount what are valid concerns for others.

People seem to forget that languages are _tools_, and as such, have different sweet-spot use-cases.

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There are some wheels, for example, 'lxml' that bundle in their binary possibly incompatible external libraries, or older libraries than what you would like. This can cause library conflicts.

It helps, that's for sure. But this sort of knowledge should not exist in the environment in any case. It should be part of the canonical package list, and not hidden away elsewhere. The whole idea of a dependency manager should be a centralized and consistent way to install everything you need and not be dependent on what values may or may not exist as a env-var.