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DEV Community ☛ What Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Thinks of Rust - DEV Community
But it wasn't just that. "The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow! And the compiler was slow, the code that came out was slow..."
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The New Stack ☛ Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
Speaking of Rust, Kernighan said “The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow.”
“And the compiler was slow, the code that came out was slow…”
All in all, Kernighan had had a bad experience. “When I tried to figure out what was going on, the language had changed since the last time somebody had posted a description! And so it took days to write a program which in other languages would take maybe five minutes…”
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Vermaden ☛ Torrent on FreeBSD
The Torrent (full name BitTorrent) is just another protocol just like HTTPS or any other … yet this one is directly perceived as ‘THE’ Piracy protocol – while you can download the same things over HTTPS protocol even in more convenient way – without any third party Torrent client or whatsoever.
Most/many open source projects serve their content over Torrent protocol like FreeBSD …
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Its just helps these projects to spread the load of downloading and hosting – the Torrent protocol really helps here – hosting is not for free.