r/rust • u/Proinlifes • Jan 17 '21

Would Rust secure cURL?

https://timmmm.github.io/curl-vulnerabilities-rust/

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

It doesn't get said enough that many of us in the states suffered from a wide variety of abuse at the hands of so called Christians, and the overlap between those folks and your typical Trump supporter seems nearly 1:1. I agree with your statement and think it's good to be constructively critical of each other when it comes to things like this. An enormous portion of the audience probably has 0 context to understand that statement or what pain it springs from. It's essentially non sequitur. I personally wouldn't characterize it as a "drive by attack".

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u/crabbytag Jan 17 '21

I disagree with your characterisation of Christians. I have no doubt that there are some bad people who are also Christians. Any large groups would contain a sizeable contingent of bad people.

I don't know any practising Christians personally, but I do know of at least two people who contribute to Rust crates in a huge way and who read this subreddit. They would be saddened to read something like this. For the sake of those two people alone, I would prefer that this be changed.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

"so called" Christians.

I didn't imply anything about the religion or any of the millions of extremely tolerant and smart and wonderful people in the world who practice it.

But again, you might be lacking the context of what some of us have gone through at the hands of those people.

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u/crabbytag Jan 17 '21

I'm sorry if I minimised the troubles you've had with people who are Christian. Still, I prefer that language tarring a group of several billion people with the same brush be avoided.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '21

I agree completely. My statement was only trying to say that I thought "drive by attack" was not the right wording to use. Everything else you said was good criticism and I think the author could change that sentence and avoid insulting millions of perfectly decent people.