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Such fameous hacker like Zalewski should better distinguish language and library interfaces design issues.

Yeah, this is just trolling. There's nothing inherent to rust that requires ( or even recommends) writing code like this. There's nothing inherent to C that prevents bad API designs like this.

Nothing about this post is notable or interesting. It's low-effort rage bait.

"There's nothing inherent to C that prevents bad API designs like this."

I don't have any data to back this and library interface designs are so personal taste-prone, but I would say that the average Rust crate has a better API than the average C library.

Say that to corporate java writers. Language creates culture and this applies to human as much as computer.

So my instinct to avoid Java at all costs wasn't irrational dysphoria after all!

The JavaEE APIs essentially set the example for everybody to then imitate. Of course it didn’t help that design patterns were in peak fashion. The Java core language is small, and most of the SE APIs aren’t particularly byzanthine. But EE then went all in for some reason.

This was my first thought as well. Rust certainly lends itself to unnecessarily complicated API designs, but so does C: OpenSSL requires something like 5-6 layers of indirection to do basic things like converting a sequence of X.509 structures into a buffer of PEMs.

I've yet to discover a language that doesn't allow a sufficiently clever engineer paint themselves into a corner with API complexity. Even deliberately simple languages like Python suffer from this.

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