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Authors: Nova[有線魔女] <novaburst@envs.net>

Date: 2021-06-17

OCaml as a programming language is not as cursed Rust is

Rust's portability is so horrible that it doesn't even run on an Arduino board

Rust is better than C++ but it's worse than C

Rust's Cargo package manager is just as cursed as Node.js's NPM is

Even Go is better than Rust

Bootstrapping an OCaml toolchain is not too hard , or even a C or a Go one , when compared to Rust

Using CMake on small projects is cursed

Using CMake for bigger projects is even more cursed ~ metalune

Bitbucket beats GitLab in uselessness

Soydevs should get an actual job outside of computing

Matrix is the best example of Suck in the instant messaging field

Do you consider Windows as an insult to Computer users? ~ tronprogram

Come back when it runs on POSIX ~ caskd

C# is what happens when some kid learns java then looks at C and thinks "I can fix this" ~ Baobab

Rust is the HTML5 of programming languages, as it lacks portability and a specification.

Cryptocurrency it's only useful to those with money. ~ https://koyu.space/@Einhjeriar

The idea of DeltaChat is good but the implementations are cursed

JS programmers should not be called programmer as a sign of respect to other programmers ~ qorg11

Don't rewrite $perfectly_functioning_program in Rust ~ shokara

C# is like having Java and C++ combined but only leaving the bad parts. ~ shokara

dude my phone is less spyware because it doesn't have an i in front of the name ~ Swim

microsoft cant even use their own operating system to host their infrastructure ~ Diego

GTK+3.0 is a theming nightmare

It's like a fallacious thought that newer thing must have improvements. ~ ibn-Hajr

Eyy I feel like being a conspiracist everytime bring up about things against the trend ~ PGP[x][m][p][p]

Why does my keyboard keep suggesting the n word? ~ SLF[xmpp]

I'm not using matrix because a lot of people use matrix ~ Baobab

Rust is a decent C++ replacement if you have the same goals as C++, but if you don’t, the design has very similar drawbacks ~ https://drewdevault.com