Linux people doing Linux things, it seems.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    bunch of old C devs

    I knew this ageist bullshit would pop up. I know we lost our mentors and are kinda feeling in the dark, but the moment people pop out the ageist slurs I know they’ve got nothing to say.

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      2 months ago

      The C developers are the ones with the ageist mindset.

      The Rust developers certainly are not the ones raising the point “C has always worked, so why should we use another language?” which ignores the objective advantages of Rust and is solely leaning on C being the older language.

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      2 months ago

      “Old” doesn’t have to mean biologically old. In this case, it means people who have been doing it for a long time—long enough that they’re set in their ways.

      So while I can understand the confusion, it doesn’t apply here.