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by bsdshepherd 4291 days ago
> And something that has completely evaded Rust designers.

“If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.” - Warren J. "Doc" Gates

Programmers are the patsy that businesses and universities use to keep growing ever larger heads of broccoli that consumers eat.

Note the similarities between GUI's 30 years ago and today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i....

Try to wrap your head around how many API's, tools, training materials, releases, updates and so forth have been done in thirty years which are effectively redundant.

The iWatch will contain regurgitations of the same todo lists, logging, sticky notes, etc. as the Palm Pilot, but without AAA batteries.