2022-03-05                         from the editor of ~insom
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   The feeling that I'm getting from doing anything non-trivial
   in Rust is "I wish I was just writing C, instead". It's
   weird because it's reminding me of when I first learned C,
   25-or-so years ago. As soon as I hit anything moderately
   hard in C, I wanted to go back to BASIC. It took a long time
   to kick the BASIC habit, it was my crutch. C is definitely
   my crutch, now.

   I actually ended up writing some C for work this week, just
   something to throw away, but when I needed to do a bunch of
   unsafe shit (like memcpy from a pointer to an int into a
   string) C had my back -- letting me do all the unsafe things
   that make it a bad choice for writing network connected
   software.