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245 points gatesn | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ericyd ◴[14 Oct 24 18:45 UTC] No.41840555[source]▶
Thank God this file format is written in Rust, otherwise I'd be extremely skeptical.
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neeh0 ◴[14 Oct 24 18:55 UTC] No.41840649[source]▶
It gave me a moment of pause why Rust is part of the equation, but I concluded I'm too dumb
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beAbU ◴[14 Oct 24 22:31 UTC] No.41842842[source]▶
For a while "written in Rust" was sort of a "trust me, bro" label. The hivemind asserted that something written in rust must be automatically good and safe, because rust is good and safe.

Thank god everyone wisened up. The tool maketh not the craftsman. These days the "written in rust" tag is met with knee jerk skepticism, as-if the hive mind over corrected.

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1. cnity ◴[16 Oct 24 09:02 UTC] No.41857033{3}[source]▶
Now the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. The linked repo README makes no song and dance, barely even a mention (and even then just to explain some setup alongside Python instructions), and yet here we are obsessing over the source language of the repo to no benefit.