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by throway453sde 1647 days ago
I am confused. Is this article in favor of Rust or does it complaint Rust is over hyped?
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It could be read as satire, especially in suggesting there was ever anything good about Java. Java ate the industry not on merit but on a billion dollars of promotion by Sun (hastening Sun's demise, which Java utterly failed to save), but much moreso on programmers' relief at finding a way out of sharecropping for Microsoft.

People today might not know that at the time, Microsoft introduced a whole new "app framework" every other year. People stuck coding for Windows were perpetually needing to get "certified" on the new thing. The New Thing was invariably horrendous. (Really, people paid to get certification as qualified to code for Windows! I am not joking.)

Comparing your thing to Java is not a good look.