Hi everyone, I really am glad to see that we have decided to create a whole thread to pick on that self-admitted Lemmy noob for asking a question–what a loser!!!

1. Fear of unfamiliar syntax. This is utterly bogus, but I can bet you that if rust used python style layout and haskell style type signatures, it would still be incredibly niche. Something can wipe the floor with the competition, be rock solid, stable and blazingly fast, but if it’s unfamiliar it will be niche. See elm for front end, for example.

But the weird thing to me is that Rust’s syntax is also pretty familiar unfamiliar since it is (just to start) heavily inspired by ML. Does it really just come down to the fact that it has mandatory curly braces and semicolons? It just seems weird to me that this should be the sticking point for people.

Edit: Oops, wrote “familiar” when I meant “unfamiliar”.

A lot of these operators are things like += and -=, though, which should not be too hard to remember if you are familiar with C-flavored languages.

Yeah, I had been willing to give the author the benefit of the doubt that this was all part of a big joke, until I saw that the rest of their blog postings are also just like this one.

What happens if you use an out of range array subscript a[n]? Does that always return an option type?

I think that you would be surprised by the amount you would learn if you spent five minutes actually trying to answer your own questions, instead of treating them as proof that you just made a relevant point merely by asking them.

I am really confused by what is going on here. Was Neo4j the original author of the code? Because if so, then they can license their own code however they like. The potential sticking point would be if they represented the license as being AGPL3 when it is not because this would be fundamentally misleading, and it sounds like the court agrees that this is a valid concern because it awarded a partial summary judgement that, “The court did affirm that a license created by combining the AGPL with other non-open-source terms cannot be called ‘free and open source.’”

It is noteworthy that apparently the Free Software Foundation did not think that this legal case was worth intervening in.

More like a scratch you just can’t itch.

“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights.” - also Schumer, immediately after saying that.

My services are so small that it is impossible to know just how fast they are running!

Man, imagine if he had just come out and said this earlier before burning out a kernel contributor…