[easuter]

If only VLC had been re-written in rust this would never have happened. For shame.

[dang]

We ban accounts for trolling, so please don't do that here.

Also, you've posted many uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts for that too, so please don't do that either.

[O5vYtytb]

Yes but it would also not have nearly as many features as it does right now.

[remotehack]

Java would work much better for VLC.

[easuter]

No. Java doesn't have fearless concurrency, zero-cost abstractions or move semantics.

[thaumasiotes]

"Fearless concurrency" and "zero-cost abstractions" sound a lot like meaningless marketing terms.

[rdiddly]

Dunno about "fearless concurrency," but "zero-cost abstractions" and "move semantics" are straight off the front page of rust-lang.org. So they're kind of marketing-ish in trying to make you go "hmm sounds intriguing" and click to find out more.

[jarman]

"fearless concurrency" is meaningless marketing, "zero-cost abstractions" is valid term

[nradov]

Feel free to rewrite VLC in Rust. No one is stopping you.

[usefulcat]

Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

[lawl]

Oh look, it's the Rust Evangelism Strike Force at work again.

[dang]

Please don't react to provocation by making the thread worse (a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls).

[lawl]

How are you so sure it's trolling? Someone from the Rust Team has defended such behavior as good marketing [0].

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/wq6eov/changes_i_would_make_go#c_ofxtj1

[dang]

One is never 100% sure, but note that the first part ("Please don't react to provocation by making the thread worse") holds regardless.