Re: Rust in Linux

On 2/24/25 5:32 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

My solution would be to get rid of all the idiot C programmers.  Throw
them all out and bring in people who actually can wield C effectively.

It used to be so.. :)
When C had just begun to be used in the industries, according to someone who definitely knew what he was talking about, you'd have to show the would be employers what you could do in C before they'd hire you. This was in mid to late 1980s.
The guy told me in order to convince the employer of your depth as well as abilities in C knowledge, you could show them proof of having done _all_ the Kernighan and Richie's problems in their book, successfully. Every one of them.
If later employers didn't have such a required standard in choosing their would-be programmers, then that must be the reason Code Monkeys and "DFS"s penetrated into areas they didn't belong.
I did a few mini contract works (really baby problems and skilled secretary work) using VBA on Excel at home during about three months in 2019, totally from home, and got paid for each $50, and a few were $75 each. Each would take me about two hours of work.
But soon I realized a few among these baby problems were extremely tricky and difficult projects, way beyond stuff that almost all their other assignments stood.
I completed a couple of these difficult ones, and instead of getting paid $400/hr for them, they paid me the same essentially chicken shit as for other mini assignments. These difficult ones took 10 to 20 hours of intense work, each, at a level that only I could do. And I had more than 2 solid years of programming extremely involved projects in VBA in my inventory control job. So I got the picture at last, and saw their hands, and quit that dishonest funky part time "work from home" job.
Of course we never saw those employers. We had electronically signed some crap online and everything was being conducted online. I bet a bunch of Pajeets were behind the business. They'd get very difficult assignments from various industries; assignments that they themselves could not code and were too difficult for them, and they'd mix them up with fake little baby problems and pass them out to various programmers across the world to get the correct codes created by some competent very good programmer among them, then they'd sell the codes with their actual prices (in tens of thousands of dollars) back to the industries.
If you could not correctly code an assignment a few times, they'd get rid of you. This was part of the agreement from the beginning. The easy ones must've attracted enough Code Monkeys to get the scheme going. And these programmers would gradually get eliminated from that job and new ones would come in. In this way they probably always maintained a few really good programmers for themselves to solve their real assignments and get paid chicken shit.
I can imagine some of the very good programmers around the world in poor countries would remain with those Pajeets for those $75 and $50 wages. Not in the USA though. I doubt they can fool a very good American programmer.
Anyway, as you know, there's a huge difference between abilities of different "programmers." Some are mere "DFS" and some are even worse, like this "Tyrone". So the condition you proposed is really required in any sensitive area.
I just remembered I had kill filed Tyrone once in the past as soon as he said something about programming and math having nothing to do with each other, or something to that effect. Then I accidentally deleted the kill file later and started anew, this time forgetting about Tyrone. The guy is a moron. If "DFS" is better than him, you can imagine where this one is.