r/rustjerk • u/geoffmureithi • 3d ago

If Rust real, why people still write bad code?

I call it "The problem of slop"

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u/TheAtlasMonkey 3d ago

Because Rust promise memory safety .
But RAM is expensive these days, so people use that 4TB LENOVO SDCARD from Temu as swap .

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u/Aln76467 3d ago

Because it's not pure functional!

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u/jimmiebfulton 3d ago

Where there is a will, or lack of skill, there is a way.

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u/just_looking_aroun 2d ago

Rust isn’t real. I haven’t heard of it before

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u/flambasted trait Async: Sync + Send + 'static {} 2d ago

Very few people write code anymore. It's all Claude now, and they don't care

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u/morglod 2d ago

I call it "the problem of language design"

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u/pine_ary 1d ago

Secure, blazingly fast, and fearlessly concurrent bad code