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ironlenny··on Unexpected productivity boost of Rust
OP was needlessly combative. But, if I have to write a program that is correct (i.e. does what I want it do to), I'm going to write it in Rust. Not because you cannot write correct programs in Python. But because it's easier to prove it's correct in Rust.

As a solo dev, I find that I start off in Python, but at a certain project size I find it too unwieldy to manage (i.e. make changes without breaking things) and that's when I implement part or all of the project in Rust.

ironlenny··on The first conformant M1 GPU driver
Some times an outsider's attempt to reverse engineer your product brings new insights.
ironlenny··on Rust Foundation: Hello, World
If everyone uses the same language, they're all going to write the same bugs! /s
ironlenny··on Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retrospective
The GR happened because it wasn't clear what maintainers should do regarding alternatives init systems. Were they required to support them? Should they just focus on Systemd? The result of the vote was maintainers are required to support Systemd, but should accept patches to support other units.
ironlenny··on Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
It's a distributed anonymous network. It wouldn't be very useful if we knew who was running the nodes.
ironlenny··on Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
I'm not quite sure what you're insinuating about Tor. Tor is an opensource project govern by a non-profit. If you're worried about things like backdoors, that's why it was opensourced in the first place.

I'm not sure how you're connecting the CIA with Tor. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA uses Tor. I know the State Department does.