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On 28/07/2025 17:16, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <1067o6p$24rjd$2@dont-email.me>,
> Julio Di Egidio  <julio@diegidio.name> wrote:
>> On 28/07/2025 13:37, Dan Cross wrote:
<snip>
>> IOW, the idea that programmers in general need to be baby-seated
> 
> I wouldn't phrase it as "babysitting".  Rather, it's
> professionals making conscious choices about their tools to most
> effectively do their jobs.
> 
>> instead of given control I find not just self-defeating but really
>> fallacious.
> 
> In what way do you feel you have less control (and over what?)
> in Rust than in, say, C?

To be clear, I have nothing against the institution of a
comp.lang.rust (on the contrary, I'd be tempted to say), nor
against the Rust language itself: I am rather commenting on
some questions of principle, and maybe some marketing slogans,
especially on the themes of "safety" on a side and "assisted"
programming on the other.

Indeed, I am not against a stratification of languages from lower
to higher level either, actually that's quite needed, I am just
of the idea that programmers should not be "protected" by anybody
but more competent programmers: but of course with that goes a
quite different idea of what *software development* means, and
to me it does not primarily mean we buy "solutions" at the shop,
the very opposite of that.

Instead we get an inversion of the chain of control and of
responsibility that is rather one of the key ingredients, the
other being the denial of the very state of the art, of the
disaster that the whole industry has been made into across
the last ~30 years...

...and the self-fulfilling prophecies, since average is the data,
averaging are and have been the policies, average are the results,
and the circle is closed: with the triumph of the levelling down
to ineptitude and consumeristic dependence.

Here is rather an analogy: go tell a race car driver that it is
"unsafe" for them to touch their breaks in a turn, and that you
actually have a "solution" in mind that will automatically disable
the breaks in a turn (and punish the driver for it)... or something
along that line.

Here is not an analogy: only a competent programmer knows the
discipline, the principles, the practices, and in fact how to
organise not only a production unit that delivers excellent
products, but also that continually grows in the level of
competence and professionalism, with clear paths for learning
and action since the beginner stages.

Because software engineering is the most complex engineering
that there is: it takes some 10 years to those who are really
committed to start understanding what it is actually about,
and some another 10 years of at least as much commitment to
become real pros.

-Julio

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    Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2025-03-10 16:42 +0000
      Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-18 02:51 -0400
        Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-28 11:37 +0000
          Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-28 13:50 +0200
            Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-28 15:16 +0000
              Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-28 17:59 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-28 22:18 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-29 10:18 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-29 12:16 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-07-29 17:37 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-29 18:24 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-29 19:14 +0200
                Rust vs Hype (was Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-29 18:27 +0000
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                Re: Rust vs Hype (was Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-08-04 22:33 +0000
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                Re: Rust vs Hype (was Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?) cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-08-08 03:30 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-30 19:08 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-30 18:00 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-30 20:34 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-30 18:40 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-07-30 20:51 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-30 18:53 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-09-05 10:59 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-08-03 17:55 +0200
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2025-08-03 18:17 +0200
              Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-07-29 06:24 +0100
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-29 12:27 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-07-30 07:44 +0100
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-30 11:30 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2025-07-30 16:51 +0100
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2025-07-30 18:00 +0000
                Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-08-02 18:41 +0200
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