Re: Python Is Bad Enough But Now There's Rust

On 2025-07-05, Lester Thorpe <lt@gnu.rocks> wrote:

My incomparable Gentoo system has the following Python versions
installed:
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python-2.7.18_p16-r2
python-3.11.13
python-3.12.11
python-3.13.5
python-3.14.0_beta3
python-3.8.20_p7
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WTF!
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But this is no fluke.  All those versions are necessary as some
other package requires them.
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However, now Rust is equally crazy.  Here are my Rust installed
versions:
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rust-1.82.0
rust-1.83.0
rust-1.84.0
rust-1.85.0
rust-1.85.1
rust-1.88.0
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Again, all are necessary somewhere.
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But Rust packages are always very slow to build and they will
each pull in a mountain of "crates."
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Rust, like Python but even worse, is the junk of junk.
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This is the price that we pay so that these developer queers
can maintain their illusion of progress.
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Rust evangelists seem to be a trojan horse for something worse.

The language is OK, but not as necessary as people make it out to be.  C
still works best as a Unix systems programming language.