Re:Why is a Rust executable large? (2016)
by andrepd on Thursday May 16, 2019 @02:51PM
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It's the "redesign culture" in a nutshell. Change things (expending effort) for no discernible reason, break familiarity, arrive at subjectively worse appearance, and at objectively worse functionality. It's hair-pullingly frustrating.
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It's a cargo cult. For any technology, there is a period of time when it improves more or less monotonically, and so most new things are cool. Some people over-extrapolate this and conclude that new things are always cool, and so is born the cult-of-the-latest-thing, which persists long after actual improvements stop.