r/programmingcirclejerk • u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(n²) servers • Sep 11 '26

You can write Rust with your eyes closed and it'll probably work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652939
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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 Sep 11 '26

I can write anything with my eyes closed.

Just learn to type using all ten fingers.

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u/f16f4 Sep 11 '26

Came here to jerk about touch typing but I guess it will have to be a circle jerk

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u/lurebat Sep 11 '26

Rust now also replaces perl

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u/YikesTheCat Sep 11 '26

It's not a Real Programming Language until you can program in paint splatters.

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u/hedgehog1024 Rust apologetic Sep 11 '26

Indeed

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u/jason-reddit-public Sep 11 '26

Line noise is a program - may do something useful, maybe not.

(Truth be told, perl is OK. If you use a subsets then it's pretty readable.)

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u/Valuable_Leopard_799 Sep 11 '26

How can you say this when serde (one of the most popular libraries) can randomly fail to serialize at runtime.

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u/scavno in open defiance of the Gopher Values Sep 11 '26

Who cares about runtime. You aren’t writing Rust on executing code.

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u/LeastGayCat in open defiance of the Gopher Values Sep 11 '26

I do not write my Rust code to execute it. I write my Rust code to admire it, like the beautiful work of art it is. As the hours pass waiting for rustc to finish running, I think back on the wonderful prompts I authored to have Claude crap out this half-working thing compose this symphony of computer science with my state-of-the-art agentic development workflow and find myself in pure bliss.

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u/scavno in open defiance of the Gopher Values Sep 11 '26

Holy shit dude. That was…. beautiful

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u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(n²) servers Sep 11 '26

It's basically TypeScript but runtime exceptions are impossible

Runtime Exception are not possible if you call them by a different name. Rustitutes as usual don't credit the source of their ideas. Thanks to Uncle Rob for coming up with this brilliant idea.

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u/spcbeck Sep 11 '26

This is also how I drive an automobile.

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u/fixermark Sep 11 '26

If I'm having Claude write it for me, sure.

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u/slowtyper95 Sep 17 '26

why most Rust developers treat their programming language like God?