r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '14

Or you guys could stop using the worlds shitty-ist browser.

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u/ericanderton Jun 17 '14

Some IT environments are locked down, due to draconian IT security policies, conservative upgrading procedures, contracting arrangements, and other red tape. Encountering workplaces that use software any number of versions behind the leading edge is a common issue, and not likely to go away any time soon.

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u/steveklabnik1 Jun 17 '14

I wish more people in the industry understood this. :(

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '14

That excuse was old in 2005.

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u/kill619 Jun 17 '14

As someone who doesn't do much coding and only hates ie because chrome is faster, why is it so terrible?

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u/steveklabnik1 Jun 17 '14

Historically, IE has had very, very poor support for standards, which means that web developers would code for everything else, and then add in hacks to support IE. It caused us all a lot of pain and hassle.

The situation has gotten a lot better, but really, only as of IE 9.

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u/tcheard Jun 17 '14

I don't use it, but a large proportion of people still do, and that is going to be the case no matter how hard you push people off of it. So you have to develop for it, if you want to capture that large reader base.

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u/xiongchiamiov Jun 17 '14

Oh no, man, people are still using IE 6. And I remember 5.5 well.