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by IshKebab 742 days ago
I think he was just offering the perspective of someone else that has also written a lot of Lua.

> The fanaticism of Rust programmers...

Honestly the endless criticism of Rust "fanatics" is far more tedious than anything Rust developers say. Rust is a fantastic language. Do you expect people not to talk about it?
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QuaternionsBhop 742 days ago
> I think he was just offering the perspective of someone else that has also written a lot of Lua.

This is what I was going for, but I am a recent Rust convert and cannot help myself from gushing over Rust. Sorry!

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chx 742 days ago
> Honestly the endless criticism of Rust "fanatics" is far more tedious than anything Rust developers say.

We can agree to disagree. I am sick and tired of Rust people screaming at the top of the lungs in every possible place about how their language is great and want to rewrite everything in it.

So yes I expect people not to praise Rust in a Lua thread, it's completely off topic.

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bmitc 742 days ago
Rust's ecosystem is also very sporadic. It seems everyone jumped on board in the gold rush (and still do), reinvent the wheel in some package to lay claim, and then abandon it when its 70% there once they get bored and/or realize rust doesn't magically solve programming.
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hu3 742 days ago
There was an article related to that recently:

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/#gui-situatio...

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IshKebab 742 days ago
That isn't really about people abandoning GUI development. Most of the big Rust GUI efforts are still going. The problem with Rust GUI libraries is that Rust isn't really old enough to have mature ones yet.
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hu3 742 days ago
> The problem with Rust GUI libraries is that Rust isn't really old enough to have mature ones yet.

Rust is between 14 and 18 years old now. Depending on who you ask. [0]

If anything that's a testimony to what bmitc wrote.

> Rust's ecosystem is also very sporadic. It seems everyone jumped on board in the gold rush (and still do), reinvent the wheel in some package to lay claim, and then abandon it when its 70% there once they get bored and/or realize rust doesn't magically solve programming.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#Hi...

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IshKebab 741 days ago
> Rust is between 14 and 18 years old now.

Rust 1.0 was released 9 years ago (the language wasn't stable and hardly anyone used it before that). 9 years is a tiny amount of time to develop a Qt-level GUI toolkit.

Go 1.0 was released 12 years ago and it still doesn't have one.

I think you're vastly underestimating the enormity of the task.

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gitaarik 742 days ago
People also talk about other languages in this thread. It rather seems to me that you are just a hater.
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