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1. Developer Memes (developermemes@social.cybre.town)'s status on Saturday, 11-Dec-2021 22:45:07 UTC Developer Memes

   "So who else is working through the weekend?"

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   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Dec-2021 06:16:50 UTC Bernie

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻
     • Brett Sheffield (he/him)

     @dentangle @jens @DeveloperMemes Java and Rust seem almost complete opposites to me.

     Java is purely OOP, runtime-dispatched, and runs in a VM with garbage collection. Rust pushes all the way on compile-time checking, with heavy use of templates for static polymorphism, more move semantics and more RAII than C++. No exceptions and no virtual-machine.

     The only common characteristic between Rust and Java is having less undefined behavior than C/C++. But pretty much any newer language does that...

   • Brett Sheffield (he/him) (dentangle@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Dec-2021 06:17:05 UTC Brett Sheffield (he/him)

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     • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

     @jens @DeveloperMemes When Java first came out I kept hearing it was going to be the next big thing. I looked at it and decided "not yet, maybe later". I kept looking at it from time to time before deciding "no". Some good ideas, but what a mess.

     I feel the same way about Rust now. Lots of people pushing a language with some good ideas that isn't ready and probably never will be.

   • Jens Finkhäuser 🌻 (jens@social.finkhaeuser.de)'s status on Monday, 13-Dec-2021 06:17:08 UTC Jens Finkhäuser 🌻

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     @DeveloperMemes I made a conscious decision not to touch Java around 2005, and have broken that only rarely and briefly. So, no.