Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by moosingin3space on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:53PM
(#18870588)
It really isn't that ridiculous that someone who has worked as a network engineer for a decade would use Erlang, C++, and Go. Even Haskell isn't too much of a stretch, considering the user's company has functional programming expertise in Erlang. Rust is a neat language that, depending on their workload, could replace all of those languages. Why the presumption of bad faith?
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:01PM
(#18870626)
Not seeing any major inconsistencies. Three months ago they exclusively used Go and Rust, at some point before that they used Erlang and Haskell and they used C++ for a total of over 10 years.
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by atombender on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:28PM
(#18871524)
Talk about cherry-picking. It's pretty clear from those comments that they've worked with Erlang before, as well as Haskell and C++, and that they've transitioned to use Rust.
For example, in the same comment that begins with "As a long time Erlang developer", they later continue: "I’m more optimistic about Rust ... We’ve been able to scale Rust to handle the same load as our Erlang cluster". So there's no contradiction here.
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by faitswulff on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:52PM
(#18870582)
A couple languages doesn't seem beyond the realm of possibility for one engineer to be familiar with, though?
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by siegfried-en on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @07:49PM
(#18870563)
You have a point, but he never said he programmed exclusively in C++, so I don’t really see the issue here...
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by mquander on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:22PM
(#18870999)
I guess I'm glad that someone sits around looking through comment histories skeptically, but I don't see what about these comments seem suspicious to you.
Re:Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in
by fxfan on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:44PM
(#18871100)
I think what you're posting definitely sounds suspicious and a lot of rust users are doing it for the hype but.
1) rust genuinely is a great language and his opinion in the comment is something I have as a professional c++ programmer or the past
2) his comment history is only suspicious and only mildly, there's nothing outright contradictory. I would give him the benefit of doubt.
why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust developer"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18310666 "As a long time Erlang developer..."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265199 "As someone who has worked two jobs now writing, deploying, and operating Erlang clusters, I recommend switching to Rust."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251478 "Becoming a professional Haskell and Erlang developer really shifted my view on OOP"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18185795 "I've been using Rust in production for a little over half a year, and my team and I have run into very few issues. [...] We're all extremely glad we chucked C++ and Go and switched to Rust. "
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171917 "I am exclusively using Go and Rust at home and at work, and I find myself equally productive in both."
you get the point.