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Re:The curse of strong typing by skorgu on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:17AM (#31594476)
This comment section is the most absolute proof I've ever seen that absolutely nobody reads the article before commenting.

Hint: it's not about integer types at all

Re:The curse of strong typing by nhumrich on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:29AM (#31594608)
Then please enlighten us and tell us what you feel the article is about rather than a snarky "rtfm" comment.

Because I started reading. I got pretty far, and it was _still_ talking about integer types. The article is very long, and I gave up, not having any idea why I should keep reading. So saying the article isnt about them "at all" is wrong. Maybe, the int type thing is an intro to some other thing? But thats a long intro. So, tl;dr, at least not all the way. Why don't you tell us the point so we have desire to actually read it.

Re:The curse of strong typing by Jtsummers on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:11AM (#31595847)
Conveniently, there's a table of contents at the start that hints at the later topics:

  Different kinds of numbers
  Conversions and type inference
  Generics and enums
  Implementing traits
  Return position
  Dynamically-sized types
  Storing stuff in structs
  Lifetimes and ownership
  Slices and arrays
  Boxed trait objects
  Reading type signatures
  Closures
  Async stuff
  Async trait methods
  The Connect trait from hyper
  Higher-ranked trait bounds
  Afterword
So 17 sections, 16 technical (excluding the Afterword) and only the first two focus on the int/float stuff. So to answer your question:

> Maybe, the int type thing is an intro to some other thing?

No, it's not an intro, it's just the first two sections.

Re:The curse of strong typing by jrimbault on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:58AM (#31595702)
> I hope I was able to show, too, that I don't consider Rust the perfect, be-all-end-all programming language. There's still a bunch of situations where, without the requisite years of messing around, you'll be stuck. Because I'm so often the person of reference to help solve these, at work and otherwise, I just thought I'd put a little something together. [emphasis mine]

As you can also see from the table of contents at the top of the article page, it goes through a great breadth of topics. And you can use that table of contents to jump to the afterword.

Re:The curse of strong typing by skorgu on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:11PM (#31597669)
Since you don't seem to have commented on the article without reading it, my comment was not addressed to you. I'm not the article police; if you find something too long to read, decide not to read it, and move on with your life, we have no quarrel.

Honestly, I don't even mind the folks who do comment without reading. Comments are free, do what you like. I just find it mildly hilarious that 100% of the comments are about (the first) 3% of the article.

Re:The curse of strong typing by imaginaryNumb3r on Thursday June 02, 2022 @09:50AM (#31594882)
Reading all of it is a big ask for a blog post that is this long
Re:The curse of strong typing by sn9 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:06PM (#31599878)
Then why bother commenting?

I don't understand the urge to comment on something one hasn't read.

Re:The curse of strong typing by imaginaryNumb3r on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:36PM (#31600814)
I did read the beginning of the article and I wasn't too impressed. So I went through the comments, looking for bits of wisdom that might hint reading the whole article was worth it. Still, I wasn't impressed.
Re:The curse of strong typing by happytoexplain on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:57PM (#31611613)
I see multiple people commenting on why they didn't read the whole thing, which is a perfectly valid topic of conversation.
Re:The curse of strong typing by happytoexplain on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:00PM (#31611654)
It is categorically about integer/numeric types in part. Why do you feel that "at all" is an appropriate qualifier?