2022-03-05 from the editor of ~insom
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The feeling that I'm getting from doing anything non-trivial
in Rust is "I wish I was just writing C, instead". It's
weird because it's reminding me of when I first learned C,
25-or-so years ago. As soon as I hit anything moderately
hard in C, I wanted to go back to BASIC. It took a long time
to kick the BASIC habit, it was my crutch. C is definitely
my crutch, now.
I actually ended up writing some C for work this week, just
something to throw away, but when I needed to do a bunch of
unsafe shit (like memcpy from a pointer to an int into a
string) C had my back -- letting me do all the unsafe things
that make it a bad choice for writing network connected
software.
