Is it weird that a programming language, with semantics that are highly authoritarian, seems to attract "community leaders" who are highly authoritarian?
— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) May 28, 2023
Jonathan Blow posts his take on the Rust controversy
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lol jonathan blow is insufferably smug but he's when he's right he's right
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I love him. He was such a hilarious douchebag in that movie that made him famous, then afterward he spent like 7 or 8 years making a puzzle game, which should have automatically been a failure, but instead it's like in the top 3 of PC puzzle games of all time.
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Never forget him being eternally BTFO by Soulja Boy
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Which one? I'm not up to date on this guy's lore
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Braid/The Witness
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Braid was phenomenal, The Witness is an insult you have to pay to receive (based)
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Man that looks actually really cool.
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If you mean which movie, it was called Indie Game the Movie. It's great, it follows two relatively normal game developers (those guys that made Super Meat Boy), the guy who made Fez, and this guy Jonathan Blow, who at the time had released Braid. If you mean which game, it's called The Witness, and it's a really solid game.
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I don't remember him being an butt but I was 12 and probably didn't get the nuance + was distracted by Phil Fish's meltdowns and Edmund McMillen who's games I really liked.
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I don't mean like he was an butthole in it, more like he was just very full of himself.
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Rust is authoritarian? I thought it was the trans language
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!nooticers?
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rust is garbage either way
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Freedom and diversity are important, but sometimes the correct ideas need to be enforced. Like the fact that transwomen are real women for example.
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He reminds me of that guy who invented kombucha lol
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jesus?
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qrd
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Lol what a cute twink
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Why won't the borrow checker let me de-reference an invalid pointer. This is literally facism!
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If your programming language doesnt let yourself shoot yourself in the foot you're a cute twink
C++ is God's chosen language
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This is America, I'm going to put a circular dependency in my imports and I don't want to hear about it until runtime.
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Ye Rusts need to frick right off real neighbors be using C++ fine without needing a verbose-butt meme language that's going to be irrelevant in less than 10 years.
Rust is a case study in why letting autists go overboard with semantics and restrictions is a terrible idea.
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I mean, yeah, that and Scala.
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How's jai going? God that smug frick even named his smug butt programming language something smug. I wish he was wrong more. So fricking smug.
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There'll be a paid beta any year now!
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There won't be.
It's good enough to release btw he just doesn't do it because he's allergic to releasing things.
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@Unkongken is in the jai beta. Please tell us where is jai going?
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In terms of timelines he's planning to release a game the next 6 months and then hire a bigger compiler team with the money. Currently just two people working on it part time
It is a really nice language though. Not just hype.
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so i can't expect it for several more years i guess lol
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This is even worse than a Lawlz thread
Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I don’t know who that is.
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Dude spent years making an invite only programming language. Dude is way over his head and it's never going to be viable.
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Just wait like 5-10 years you'll be proven so wrong
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Cniles
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Literally who
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Can I get a recap on the Rust Drama?
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More like jonathan blow me
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