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Are you kidding? Sounds remarkably efficient specifically because OP just joined a week ago.

> but offers much less to make using your library pleasant and foolproof

Not my experience so far, I might go as far and say it makes it more foolproof because when writing your library you have the option to return an `Option` or `Result` enum.

As someone who tried learning C++ a few years ago this is (personally) my biggest gripe with the language and this gif[0] perfectly sums it up. Gave up and started learning Rust instead, which I'm very happy about in hindsight.

[0] https://twitter.com/timur_audio/status/1004017362381795329

I love the "But internet stuff should be free!" button, got a chuckle out of me :P

MongoDB would be one that comes to mind which is public traded (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MDB/)

I have been using the snap versions of Chromium, Discord, CLion and Spotify for a while now and I haven't noticed any slowness whatsoever. Sure the applications need some seconds (at most 5) to start up on a freshly booted machine but other than that it's pretty snappy (heh). The only issue I have encountered so far is that some applications don't respect the environments cursor theme (looking at you Spotify and Postman) but that's easily fixable by the package maintainers. Other than that I really don't understand the hate-train for snap. Coming from Arch Linux, PPAs seem like a PITA to me and an elegant solution such as the AUR doesn't exist in the Ubuntu ecosystem so snap / flatpak are the next closest thing to it.