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If only VLC had been re-written in rust this would never have happened. For shame.

We ban accounts for trolling, so please don't do that here.

Also, you've posted many uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments. We ban accounts for that too, so please don't do that either.

Yes but it would also not have nearly as many features as it does right now.

Java would work much better for VLC.

No. Java doesn't have fearless concurrency, zero-cost abstractions or move semantics.

"Fearless concurrency" and "zero-cost abstractions" sound a lot like meaningless marketing terms.

Dunno about "fearless concurrency," but "zero-cost abstractions" and "move semantics" are straight off the front page of rust-lang.org. So they're kind of marketing-ish in trying to make you go "hmm sounds intriguing" and click to find out more.

"fearless concurrency" is meaningless marketing, "zero-cost abstractions" is valid term

Feel free to rewrite VLC in Rust. No one is stopping you.

Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

Oh look, it's the Rust Evangelism Strike Force at work again.

Please don't react to provocation by making the thread worse (a.k.a. please don't feed the trolls).

How are you so sure it's trolling? Someone from the Rust Team has defended such behavior as good marketing [0].

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/wq6eov/changes_i_would_make_go#c_ofxtj1

One is never 100% sure, but note that the first part ("Please don't react to provocation by making the thread worse") holds regardless.

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