[tareqak]

Congratulations to the Mozilla and Rust teams!

Accounts like this one really help people who advocate investing in and building new tools to help against the heavy-handed application of phrases like "a bad workman always blames his tools" [0][1].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_bad_workman_always_blames_h...

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/a_bad_workman_a...

Edit: formatting and typo

[Analemma_]

I hate that phrase and its reflexive usage so much. Yes, a bad workman blames his tools, but so does a good workman using lousy tools.

[chowells]

You can respond with "that's because a good workman doesn't use poor tools."

It nicely suggests that maybe it's the programmer's responsibility to advocate for something better.

[nitrogen]

When I was a kid I used to pride myself on how many things I could take apart and reassemble with just a butter knife. But that was only because I didn't have access to real screwdrivers.

Likewise with software, each improved tool I learn (or new but worse tool I learn to avoid) makes me appreciate how much time I could have been wasting by using inferior tools/practices/languages.

[Manishearth]

See also: https://www.schneems.com/2016/08/16/sharp-tools.html