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Suppose you're in a situation where you have to resolve a bug under 15 minutes, or you'll get fired, or maybe your company will go bankrupt. If the codebase if FP based, it is certainly going to be more difficult to quickly find and fix the bug as compared to a codebase written in a simpler language. FP is good for experimenting and playing with, but IMO it is not suitable for anything serious. Rust is also not going to get too far for the same reason I believe.

What's next? Sue Lemonade for using 'L', 'e', 'm' and 'o' alphabets because they're also used in T-mobile's name?

PSA: if your kid is being bullied in school, it is totally OK to knock the shit out of the bully exactly once (after gathering sufficient evidence of bullying). It will resolve 99% of your kid's problems.

I think the problem is that people are using HN as their only source of general news. People upvote anything that even remotely amuses them and hence the situation.

The author should have shown some code, because it certainly feels like they're talking out of their ass. "Javascript is C" wtf does that even mean?

A "forward-thinking" project shouldn't have been written in C. They should've used Rust.

As a person who has been a user of StackOverflow for years and still unaware of what these "Community Elected Moderators" are, can someone explain what's the role of these guys exactly?

I love how a single episode of a show can piss off the government of a country. Just recently Saudi Arabia banned an episode of "Patriot Act" and now this. Tyrants are really sensitive I guess.

Also surprising to see pretty good English in these comments given the fact that most Chinese residents absolutely suck at it.

I thought resources were freed when they went out of scope preventing any memory leaks in Rust.

"Written in Rust". That alone makes it worthy of the frontpage.

I've been in trouble for calling my food mushy in front of my German friends.

It's a known tactic to get your projects on the HN frontpage.

I would, first of all, call bullshit on this claim. A language can't be "faster than C". Comparing a good implementation with a bad C implementation is where these claims come from.

Here we go again. I thought they were going to bring back scissor switch? I guess this is going to be an endless cycle of Apple fucking up new laptops, deciding to switch back to a sane keyboard, and then suddenly forgetting about the whole deal.

Makes sense; You don't really need a degree to be a web-dev anyway. On the other hand, people with CS degree rarely become a web-dev.