• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    8 天前

    What’s a rust programmer? Someone who’s ever written anything in it? If the same holds true for C, probably a higher percentage than of ‘C programmers’ given how long that’s been a teaching language lol

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      8 天前

      Well, academic exercises for grades, I’d call Rust students.

      Throw away programs people do for fun, I’d call Rust hobbyists.

      Pretty much anyone else, doing it for money (a living: roof over head, food on table), or open source contribution - I think they qualify.

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          8 天前

          Don’t be so sure… I work for “megacorp” and about a year ago word came from on-high: “thou shalt not C (or C++, not that they know the difference) anymore. We are in mortal fear of embarassment that we allowed a mistake to be made that our all seeing oversight should have prevented by mandating the use of safe tools.”

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            8 天前

            That’s still rather recently, and there’s rather a large stock of ‘before people’ hanging around. But I agree inasmuch as it’ll change as time goes by and one day you’ll be right.