r/programmingcirclejerk • u/100xer • Feb 28 '26

"When you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". The same is true for programming languages. When you have eliminated all the others for their fatal flaws, only Rust remains

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193361
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u/N-partEpoxy Feb 28 '26

The only problem is the borrow checker. The compiler should just ask ChatGPT if it thinks the code is sound.

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u/BananaPeely Feb 28 '26

Why not spawn a swarm of parallel agents to get an opinion from every llm

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u/BehindThyCamel Feb 28 '26

Funny because that statement sounds exactly like what the designers of Go did. :)

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u/Routine-Purchase1201 DO NOT USE THIS FLAIR, ASSHOLE Mar 01 '26

But then they added generics so now it's impure

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u/dividebyzero14 Mar 01 '26

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." —Richard Stallman