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Re:Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust by TheCoelacanth on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:53PM (#17681434)
Closed source dependencies treat programmers as infants. With open source dependencies, private methods are just an organization tool, not an actual limitation on the programmer.
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Re:Sequoia-PGP – A new OpenPGP implementation in Rust by speedplane on Thursday August 09, 2018 @02:35AM (#17722028)
If a programmer cannot access some variable or function because another developer thought that they "shouldn't", how is that not treating them like infants?
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