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2022-03-05

The feeling that I'm getting from doing anything non-trivial in Rust is "I wish I was just writing C, instead". It's weird because it's reminding me of when I first learned C, 25-or-so years ago. As soon as I hit anything moderately hard in C, I wanted to go back to BASIC. It took a long time to kick the BASIC habit, it was my crutch. C is definitely my crutch, now.

I actually ended up writing some C for work this week, just something to throw away, but when I needed to do a bunch of unsafe shit (like memcpy from a pointer to an int into a string) C had my back -- letting me do all the unsafe things that make it a bad choice for writing network connected software.