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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by jchw on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:24PM (#20763434)
Apples and oranges. It is a feature that Go, Rust don't have "enterprise" standard libraries like Java and .NET.
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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by pcwalton on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:08PM (#20764302)
This comment indicates the problem! Taking the scare-quotes "enterprise" as a synonym for "bloat", one person's necessary feature is another person's bloat.

.NET is an interesting case, because of WinForms, which is a de facto part of the standard library. I think few C# developers think of WinForms as bloat; it's very convenient for making simple UIs. Yet putting, say, GTK+, in the Go standard library would doubtless be considered bloat. I don't think there are easy answers to these questions.

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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by grumpydba on Thursday August 22, 2019 @02:23AM (#20765198)
> it's very convenient for making simple UIs.

It's not that convenient on Linux though...

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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by GordonS on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:22AM (#20766829)
Agree, the "enterprise" jibe here is misguided - as an OSS developer, I find the dotnet standard library to be fantastic. I don't find it to be at all bloated or 'enterprisey'.
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