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Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac... by pingyong on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:00AM (#21753055)

>I pretty much never partied and spent my time studying at the library. I wouldn't have been able to usefully work on Rust without a lot of the PL theory that I learned at university

Did studying by yourself at the library really require being enrolled in a university though? I mean which part of this education is not indefinitely scalable? Pretty much only the personal attention of a professor. Did you require the personal attention of a professor to learn PLT? Somehow I don't think so.

>Before learning PLT I thought that the C type system was all anyone needed.

Using C for a while would've fixed that for you, too.

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Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac... by zozbot234 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:09AM (#21753136)

I surmise that pcwalton may have higher standards for "useful work on Rust" than the average HNer. (It is, after all, quite difficult to appreciate a "complex design" that doesn't yet exist - not in its current form, at least.)

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Re:College-educated workers are taking over the American fac... by rayiner on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @10:20AM (#21753237)

> I mean Rust isn't exactly very difficult to use.

He's talking about working on Rust, not working in Rust. A Rust compiler, with its borrowing/type-checking, is an order of magnitude more complicated than one for C.

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