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> "sounds like someone trying to push their preferred language onto others."
> didn't even name Rust in the first comment
I literally only talked about Rust when someone else mentioned it, because I'm not specifically talking about Rust.
Whereas yes, Rust is relevant to the Linux kernel for obvious reasons (matching C's speed and being easily interoperable with it), I said "a modern language" because I'm talking generally about the use of old, unsafe languages and major exploits surrounding problems that modern languages fix cropping up every 5 seconds.
I'm not going to police my own tone about what are clearly negligent engineering practices. SWE should be treated with the same level of scrutiny as other engineering fields when its poor, outdated practices are constantly causing accelerating worldwide damage.
Everyone is sick of this low effort advocacy
I'm not. Keep going @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
Idk, I find it pretty informative.
Cool, that's fine. I think it was clear I didn't mean literally everyone. At least for me the boosterism has been pretty relentless for many years, taking over from the Python dogmatism before that.
The languages are cool and have many nice aspects, the volunteer advertising is tiresome though.
How dare people post facts about modern tools in a tech oriented community!? So sick of it!