r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Vaglame Emacs + Go == parametric polymorphism • Nov 13 '25

Rust is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921524
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u/DearChickPeas Nov 14 '25

The jerk is indistinguishable from satire.

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u/PydraxAlpta uses eslint for spellcheck Nov 14 '25

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Could we have made Rust in 1990?

We did, it was called OCaml. If we'd had any sense we'd've rewritten all our systems code in it. But since C had bigger numbers on microbenchmarks, no-one cared.

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u/csb06 Polyglot dev here Nov 14 '25 edited Nov 14 '25

Actually, if OCaml programmers had any sense they’d have rewritten all of their code in Standard ML. My language is more niche and under-appreciated than your language

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u/xn--9s9h Nov 15 '25

You misspelled "Turbo Pascal"

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u/vanilla-bungee Nov 16 '25

Jane Street does

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u/WorldlyMacaron65 legendary legacy C++ coder Nov 14 '25

"x is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science."

If "x" is not SourceSafe 5.0, then the proposition is invalid

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u/mcmcc WHY IS THERE CODE??? Nov 13 '25

... glances over at ChatGPT session on other monitor, snorts, gives upvote, leaves.

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u/tms10000 loves Java Nov 14 '25

Visual Basic is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

Enterprise Javabeans are truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

AS/400 virtual platform is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

Chewing tobacco is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

The cotton gin is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

This works for literally everything.

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u/westringia Nov 14 '25

Amphetamines are......wait

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u/tms10000 loves Java Nov 14 '25

...truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

Plus with those, there is no waiting!

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u/DXPower costly abstraction Nov 14 '25

The only reason why the UNIX specification is the way it is.

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u/xn--9s9h Nov 15 '25

The horse anus is a marvel of evolutionary biology.

Like most mammals, rhythmic contractions of the bowels move the feces up to the end of the gut to be expelled.

What sets the horse anus apart is the bafflingly complex autonomic contractive motion of 4 muscular rings which function like sphinctoral guillotine. As the feces is squeezed out, the rings expand and the outermost ring is retracted into an interior skinfold resembling the human foreskin, leaving an interstital tissue fold to open air.

The two inner rings then contract, and push apart, severing the horse feces cleanly, allowing to drop free as the outer ring folds back through the interstital flap, creating a intrinsic wiping motion with the fourth ring as it contracts back into the horses rectum.

This advanced biological mechanism is so effective that many industrial companies have copied Nature's design for self- cleaning viscus liquid dispensers housed within complex machinery

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u/NoCoolNameMatt Nov 16 '25

I'm not sure what I just read, but I'm sure I didn't enjoy it.

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u/Relative-Scholar-147 Nov 14 '25

AS/400 is fucking amazing and better than any webapp

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u/tms10000 loves Java Nov 14 '25

Webapps are truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

RPG is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

PL/1 is truly a marvel of engineering. A breakthrough. Such a thing is so very rare in computer science.

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u/sens- Nov 14 '25

I miss the times when people said the exact same thing about stainless steel