[Info-vax] Rust as a HS language, was: Re: Quiet?

[chris]

On 04/07/22 15:59, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article<t2l9jp$b8i$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> chris<chris-nospam at tridac.net>  wrote:
>> On 04/06/22 01:25, Dan Cross wrote:
>> This sounds like medication to cure everyone from their sloppy
>> programming. The infantilisation of complex subjects, just to give the
>> lazy an easier time, while still getting the product built.
>> The answer to that is not languages that constrain movement, but
>> developing more professional skills and applying due diligence
>> and attention to detail to system design and implementation.
>>
>> I must be getting old, so what happened to pursuit of excellence
>> and more ?...
>
> Excellent practitioners curate their tools and select the ones
> that give them the best chance of maximizing the effectiveness
> of their work products.  Ego driven machismo and disdain for
> tooling that helps prevent defects is a sign of an amateurish
> attitude towards software development, not that of a
> professional, let alone an engineer.
>
> 	- Dan C.
>
  Agree 100% with that. Good engineers develop their own methods
and tools as experience accumulates. Having said that, if you
have been in the business for decades, you know what works and
what doesn't and what is fluff, so a certain arrogance and
intolerance of fools is normal. It's not an ego thing, but more
often hard won experience in product delivery, often against
the odds.

I don't apologise for that. Those who are not prepared to make
the effort to learn their craft and accept substandard should
not be in the business, no excuses...

Chris