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Cake day: January 23rd, 2022

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  • The choice of Rust limited the ability for people to contribute.

    That’s unfortunate. I think rust is particularly tailored to big projects with many contributors that need the performance boosts of a “low level” language. This goes especially for web apps, since they’re likely to grow in size directly correlated to number of users and use time.

    I get that the compiler is viewed as “training wheels” by the C and C++ coders, but it’s nearly impossible to ensure memory safety on a large project without something or someone checking and enforcing it, since no one can be reasonably expected to parse thousands of lines of code and keep the data flow in mind at all times while considering edge cases and also trying to add on to it while other also grow it.




  • It’s terrible for secure/private communications, it requires hacks that violate the TOS and EULA to modify the client to get rid of ads and change themes, it’s not FOSS, and it locks features behind a paywall…

    But it does what skype already did, so I’m glad we all have to migrate to the new fad site that strips even more of our dignity and privacy every 10 years that’ll die anyway because it offers nothing and has a terrible business model.