Name: Anonymous 2017-08-02 4:37
Saw this on Hacker Jews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901443
Rusticules immediately stormed the comments here and used a bot to DDoS the site hosting the blog article in an attempt to limit the damage. Despite that, even ardent Rust supporters inadvertently admit how shitty Rust is in practice. Focus in on the author of Rust-brotli, where he reveals his brain damage (whether it was caused by Rust, or his brain damage was what attracted him to Rust in the beginning is unknown).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14903412
Yes folks, Rust is so awesome, converting 6 lines of C into hundreds of lines of Rust is completely justified by the cult!
Rusticules immediately stormed the comments here and used a bot to DDoS the site hosting the blog article in an attempt to limit the damage. Despite that, even ardent Rust supporters inadvertently admit how shitty Rust is in practice. Focus in on the author of Rust-brotli, where he reveals his brain damage (whether it was caused by Rust, or his brain damage was what attracted him to Rust in the beginning is unknown).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14903412
Though it wasn't all roses: to try to get SSE vectorization I had to convert this 6 line short string matching function https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli/blob/238c9c539b446d7d...
into this multi hundred line monster with macros and so forth https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli/blob/238c9c539b446d7d...
but in the end it was as fast as hand-tuned intrinsics in C
Yes folks, Rust is so awesome, converting 6 lines of C into hundreds of lines of Rust is completely justified by the cult!