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Rust is great. However in an agentic world go will win. Look no further than incremental build times. This, combined with high token costs mean that for a given application it simply will cost more to to write it in Rust than Go.

This can easily be justified for many usecases, but for your vanilla crud app, do you really need Rust?

Per the article, you are getting 20-50% better more performance with Rust. Not worth it unless your team was already fluent in Rust. Now consider a scenario where your team uses AI exclusively to code, now you are spending more time and tokens waiting around to consume large rust builds. As far as I know this is an inherent property of Rust to have its safety guarantees.

I think Rust makes sense for a lot of cases, but for a small web service, overkill and unnecessary imho. If someone ported their crud app from Go to Rust I would question their priorities.

Again I am speaking more in terms of software engineering economics than anything else. Yes, I know in a perfect world Rust binaries are smaller, performance is better and code more “correct”, but the world is hardly perfect. People have to push code quickly, iterate quickly. Teams have churn, Rust, frankly is alien for many, etc.

A commodity rapidly increasing in price. What could go wrong?

No, this isn't new. Everything you’re saying happened with police killing too.

There are plenty of police killings fitting that criteria since 2020.

I’m sure the people killed appreciate the distinction.

Police have been killing Americans since at least the 1900s

What a strange comment. Foreigners are not inherently people of color…

> From now on, an alien who is in the US temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances

Whats the equivalent policy for other countries? Can you stay like you could prior to this?

Seems like an overreaction. Licensing aside it is trivial to use a Bambu completely air gapped. If someone uses AI at all but cares about this I hope the irony is not lost on them.

There is no precedent for AGPL enforcement against Chinese companies, so no, not really.

Feel free to post a docket if you disagree though. Also there are plenty of cases for ToS violations look up Facebook vs BrandTotal, or more recently Epic vs Apple.

In the same way no one here cares about archive.org paywall circumvention, non techie end users don't care about open source violations (why should they). Look at the very link we are discussing for proof.

Xcancel is against the x terms of service. But no one really cares because it is not perceived as an issue, similar to this situation

Open source for medium and small projects is dead if enforcement is a consideration. Trivial to reimplement in same or other language and give yourself plausible deniability.

Kind of love the irony of this being an xcancel link

Proof?

Is there a single source separating the harness from the model here? I would love to see a controlled experiment.

What are you talking about?

Could you imagine if Postgres decided to yolo a port (even if unreleased) to rust? Why port the whole thing like this? Why not do it piecemeal and get each piece to prod?

Look no further than their owner for the reason, unless it is merely a coincidence this only happened after a change in ownership…

Right up there with the rest or telco.

is it really that weird to want to read the most recent email first? that's how the emails are already arranged. they just decide to not respect this when reading threaded emails. or is this sarcasm? lol

hate pieces tend to rank highly. better if it's hating on big co

YouTube has nearly the same MAU as Facebook. YouTube is definitely social, albeit different. The rest, well I respectively disagree.

Sure, and 20 years ago Walmart dominated retail. And yet, Amazon is winning now. Being #1 is never guaranteed. Plenty of more examples of this happening. Defending your position becomes increasingly difficult. We're literally seeing this right now with AI.

I honest to God cannot see how someone informed at all could call Google stagnant. Name almost anything and Google is on the frontier. Quantum computing, self driving, language models, network infrastructure, TPUs, etc.

It's some sort of delusion on this website that Google is falling behind. Or more likely, wishful thinking.

Maybe if we're lucky we get more memory efficient software. ehh who am I kidding.

Notebook LM is good.

I remember these types of posts saying Google is done because they shut down Google Reader. Google's stock was about $60 at the time. I look forward to reading this post and chuckling a few years from now. Doomers really do get more engagement, though. I have some friends in real life who complained about reader, and none of them even use RSS feeds anymore. I mean seriously?

The one point I will make though is: these people complaining about Google shutting things down is really just funny. It's like complaining about people having abandoned side projects. A healthy organization tries things. Not everything works out or is cashflow positive. That's life.

For reference Google has more employees than all Y Combinator companies combined. Keep in mind there are thousands of dead Y Combinator companies.

A better complaint about Google would be the lack of polish on many products. Take Gmail. Google made haste in adding the "AI Inbox", and yet you can't even read threaded emails in reverse chronological order. People have been complaining about this for nearly its entire existence. With the talent, and now AI - there's no reason such a thing couldn't be fixed tomorrow. It's just CSS and there are tons of chrome extensions that implement this. C'mon...

Surprised it took this long.

I don’t know how people take these claims seriously for private companies. Does no one remember Enron?

That being said I am sure they are making bank.

Cant wait to see their books once they IPO