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I just made a post in the reddit rust section, with my honest critique of the language from the perspective of an experienced C++ developer who has been exploring it. There were a good many responses and a good discussion going on. But presumably it wasn't sufficiently positive, and it just got whacked.
I never cease to be amazed at how language fans circle the wagons against any criticism. For a minute there I thought the Rust section might be actually more mature than the C++ one, where punitive down-voting is rampant. But I guess not.
That doesn't fill me with an urge to commit to the language.
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Me: Product X shouldn't _____ .
Fan: But it does.
Me: Yes, but it shouldn't.
Fan: Of course it should; that's how it was designed.
Me: But it shouldn't have been.
Fan: It's the paradigm the designer chose.
Me: It was a poor choice.
Etc. etc. etc.
It's been going on for decades and it won't change.
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In this case, Rust is still fairly young and has room for for growth. I was just throwing in my two cents on what I felt was holding me back from committing to it. If people don't speak up, no one's going to guess what we want.
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Dean Roddey wrote: If people don't speak up
Sure, but if the designer/implementer doesn't ask for input (when it will actually help) it's hardly any use (after the fact).
As with complaining about some of the features of C.
When Walter Bright was designing D (twenty years ago now?), he did ask for input on certain features, and took the feedback of testers into consideration.
Yet which language is getting more traction?
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Well, that's more to do with the relative heft of the entities behind the two languages, not whether they took feedback or not.
And obviously they aren't going to come to my house and have tea with me and ask my my opinion. That's one of the reasonably positive reasons the internet exists. We can make our opinions known publicly. At least when they aren't censored.
And I would think that they do actually pay attention to what people think to some extent. They presumably want people to adopt it widely enough to make it more than a niche language, which currently it very much is. And there's nothing wrong with public debate amongst users and potential users, IMO.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Sure, but if the designer/implementer doesn't ask for input (when it will actually help) it's hardly any use (after the fact).
And even when they ask, there is no certainty that they will use / make something out the given feedback
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Dean Roddey wrote: But presumably it wasn't sufficiently positive, and it just got whacked.
Did they actually delete it or just down-vote it? I'd like to read it if you leave us a link to it.
It sounds as if you were giving a balanced evaluation.
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Dean Roddey wrote: I just made a post [...] on reddit [...] but [...] wasn't sufficiently positive and it [...] got whacked.
Reddit in a nutshell for any section with a decent number of members. If you present any thoughts or ideas counter to the locally 'accepted truth' you get run out on a rail.
Some sections are worse than others but, like Facebook and Twitter, it is a place best avoided.
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Dean Roddey wrote: I just made a post in the reddit rust section,
That's what you get from straying from the one true path that is unmanaged c++.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Ah, you have seen the light.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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saw the light before I was essentially forced to move to .Net. I spent almost 20 years doing C++ - until the C++ job market dried up.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Therein lies the rub. Even though Rust has probably a better chance than average of becoming something other than a niche language, it's still very much one now and putting in the time to learn it is definitely something of a risk. Part of my argument is make it more attractive to the rest of the existing C#/C++/Python/etc... world by supporting real inheritance. Even if you don't believe, as I do, that inheritance is a powerful tool, add it for those folks who know it and know how to use it effectively.
There's a big chicken and egg thing with a new language. Until there are jobs for it, people won't dig into it for the most part, but until there's a reasonably deep talent pool, companies won't want to commit to using it. I don't think I've seen a single job posting that included Rust, though I'm sure some are out there, at Mozilla if nothing else.
For me, I'm a Windows/C++ guy. That turned out to be possibly the worst combination. Windows is fine, but not C++ on Windows so much. C++ would be somewhat better on Linux. C# I've done a good bit of work with already, but that's sort of doubling down on Windows.
I've been playing around with Rust on Linux, sort of killing two brain cells at once. But, in terms of really committing to Rust enough to really learn it and start to do serious work in it, I dunno if that's warranted. Both for reasons of lack of maturity of the language and tools and ecosystem, and because of the decisions made in its creation. It has some really interesting ideas, but it has some glaring holes.
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Given that most dev work is leaning hard in the direction of the web, historically desktop languages are not long for the world. C# doesn't necessarily glue you to Windows any more than C++ glues you to Linux.
I haven't looked at rust at all, given my proximity to retirement. New languages will probably be more widely (or wildly) embraced as us oldsters move out of the work force.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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But, the other side of that coin, though I hate it terribly, is that everything is pushing us towards rented software and undoing the PC revolution. That means that the back end of the web becomes heavier and heavier. Folk like Amazon are hiring a lot for large scale back end development to support this trend. It takes a lot of software to track everything we do and package it up for sale.
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If you do long running debugging session with Visual Studio, your output window is likely flooded with message like
The thread 0x1b70 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x19ec has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x34cc has exited with code 0 (0x0).
How do I get rid of those? Anyone knows?
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Right click in the Output window and, at least in VS2019, you can turn off "Thread exit messages".
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You legend! 
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RTEM! 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Only in my own mind. 
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I have an extra Facebook account (yes, I know it's "illegal"  ) that I had set up for the sole purpose of posting articles from the Wall Street Journal so that I could get around its seemingly impenetrable paywall - a ploy that doesn't even seem to work anymore! I should say that I been using my regular account in Firefox, and this extra account in Chrome, so it hasn't been an issue going back & forth.
Anyway, because Firefox has automatically updated to a new version (66.0.3), all the add-ons for that are now broken , and thus Firefox is currently a dodgy browser to use (I've figured out how to add the add-ons back in some type of temporary debug status, but of course, some of them are causing strange behavior ). So I used Chrome to access Facebook, and thus that extra account was in the cookie to have me logged in, and I noticed a huge number of notifications from 2 accounts that are not my Friends or anything else like that that I can detect. I tried searching for how to accomplish this, but alas, I have failed  - and thus I have come here to the ask the masters on how to do this. 
EDIT: It seems that these notifications are termed as "Pages you may like", so maybe Facebook itself is pumping these notifications?
modified 5-May-19 21:01pm.
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