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Comment Re:I don't currently use Rust (Score 1) 63

Your comment leads me to believe that you have never asked yourself, "How do I avoid bugs?" in your own preferred language. So you have plenty of bugs in your own code. If you have a bug tracker, the bug count is probably increasing to the point of overflowing, with no hope of ever reversing because you've never asked yourself that question, "how do I avoid bugs?" So you don't avoid them.

Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 3, Insightful) 63

He sucks.

The reason is that even though he has been programming in C for 20 years or more in the kernel, he never sat down and asked himself, "How do I avoid memory bugs in C? How do I avoid bugs?" It wasn't until he started using Rust that he even began approaching that question.

So his code is going to have plenty of other bugs, simply because he's never asked himself the question, "How do I avoid bugs?" No language is going to save him.

Comment Re:I don't currently use Rust (Score 0) 63

This is the problem:

Even if Rust vanished tomorrow, Kroah-Hartman argued, it has already forced the kernel to clean up C code and interfaces. He credited Rust's influence outright: "We stole this from Rust. Thank you. It's a good idea, so if Rust disappeared tomorrow, we have cleaned up the C code in the kernel so much and taken in the ideas.

The problem is he had never put much thought into how to actually manage memory in a reasonable way in C. This is why C code is bad, because C programmers never ask themselves, "How do I not leak memory?"

Comment Re: Thanks to Trump (Score 1) 124

No evidence Iran was ever going to get nukes.

The evidence is that they are refining uranium far more than is needed for anything other than nukes.

There are two possibilities: 1) they want to eventually build nukes after building the missile range to hold off the US, or 2) They are getting as close to building a nuke as possible without actually building one.

Of course, it's more complicated because Iran is not monolithic. The religious leader seemed to not want nukes (for the time being), while the IRGC leadership seemed to want to really build them.

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