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“I don’t really want to re-hash the discussion about credit for software, or funding for software. This is a lost cause. But we need, collectively, to realize the degree of emotional investment that happens when we develop, and commit to maintaining, a piece of software: not just because there is some attachment to the code as a technical object, but also because there is a feeling of responsibility for the way it will be used.” @…

Vol. 14 - Maintaining scientific software is a bad idea
There is a reason GitHub’s open-source guide for creators starts with self-care. Maintaining code is a long-term endeavour, and more crucially, the skills...

New #RustLang projects are popping up all over the place. Many of them quickly reach feature parity with their non-Rust predecessors, then beat them both in functionality and performance. Seeing all this, it's hard not to think of Rust as a language that makes rapid development and deployment possible, and that outperforms other programming languages.
While I won't argue that Rust has its advantages, that's not the real reason here. In my opinion, it's all about its popularity. All the cool kids use Rust nowadays, and cool kids are precisely the kind of people who have time and energy to develop stuff rapidly. Add to that corporations investing in the next boom, and delivering a full-time paid workforce and funding, the culture of code reuse (i.e. sharing lots of crates), and last but not least, the benefit of starting from scratch.
Old folk like us, who barely manage enough energy to keep things alive, can't compete with that. However, we have one advantage. We don't care about being cool anymore. We aren't going to pack our bags and run after the next shiny thing, whenever the next best thing since sliced bread gets invented.
#Gentoo #OpenSource

You know I don’t even care if the numerous dipshits maliciously misinterpreting the 2nd Amendment to completely ignore the bit about “well regulated militia” are right or not; the point is that the grotesque lack of gun regulation in the US is resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent victims every year. If the 2A is the reason for that, then it should be amended!