[tayo42]

what is the difference?

though I do feel like i see this a lot with these kinds of "we re-wrote it in rust and everything is fast". comparing to a language with gc options often the scenario

on one hand, i feel like you should just learn how to use your stuff properly. on the other hand it is interesting to see that people who can't write fast code or use libraries properly are actually writing fast code. like fast code for the masses almost hah. though maybe theyll just run into the same issue when they misuse a library in rust

[brahbrah]

The first issue I have with it is that they've now convinced a large portion of people that read this article that a very good tool is not as good as it actually is. This is a disservice to the great engineering that has gone into it.

The rest of my issue with it is hypothetical. I don't care what he does at work, but I would imagine if I was that dude's manager and he convinced me that he put in all this work and determined that the best path forward is to introduce a brand new language and tool chain into our environment to maintain (obviously not as big a deal if it was already well engrained in the team), and then I come to find out that he could have gotten even better results by changing a few lines with the existing tools, that I would have to reevaluate my view of said developer.