From 5a618a4945fb411bb03dd01266caf7886db46ba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dacctal <donotcontactmevia@email.invalid>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:56:53 +0000
Subject: added rust to the list of things i hate

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       <summary><a href="#what_i_hate">#</a> what_i_hate</summary>
       <div class="entries">
         <section class="block">
-          <h3>Nix</h3>
+          <h3>nix</h3>
           <ul>
-            <li>Nixlang is a DSL (We hate DSLs)</li>
-            <li>Nixlang could very easily have just been lua. (it would probably also have been faster too.)</li>
-            <li>NixOS is the opposite of simple.</li>
-            <li>NixOS hard depends on systemd, and many other unnecessarily large software (We like choice)</li>
-            <li>NixOS, because of all of its hard dependencies, ends up being incredbily bloated in comparison to similar systems.</li>
-            <li>NixOS hides the majority of your system's backend under layers of abstraction.</li>
+            <li>nixlang is a DSL (We hate DSLs)</li>
+            <li>nixlang could very easily have just been lua. (it would probably also have been faster too.)</li>
+            <li>nixos is the opposite of simple.</li>
+            <li>nixos hard depends on systemd, and many other unnecessarily large software (We like choice)</li>
+            <li>nixos, because of all of its hard dependencies, ends up being incredbily bloated in comparison to similar systems.</li>
+            <li>nixos hides the majority of your system's backend under layers of abstraction.</li>
             <li>nixpkgs is very poorly maintained and has terrible support for essential software like librewolf.</li>
             <li>"muh pure functional programming"</li>
           </ul>
         </section>
+
+        <section class="block">
+          <h3>rust</h3>
+          <ul>
+            <li>complexity != safety</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>if you need memory safety, write memory safe code.</li>
+              </ul>
+            <li>ecosystem is absolutely horrendous</li>
+              <ul>
+                <li>pulling in dependencies statically bloats up your program.<br>
+                    most people who write rust have more than one of these<br>
+                    meta-dependencies, so you bet your ass most rust programs<br>
+                    are installing duplicate libraries for the sake of<br>
+                    statically linking</li>
+                <li>dependencies almost always have a bunch of child dependencies<br>
+                    (i thought this was a programming language not an system<br>
+                    package manager)</li>
+                <li>cargo is susceptible to supply chain attacks<br>
+                    (this is not something you want in a COMPILER/BUILD-SYSTEM)</li>
+              </ul>
+            <li>compiling software first requires you to compile all dependencies<br>
+                before even checking if there's any errors in your program<br>
+                (this could be fixed by just dynamically linking dependencies)</li>
+            <li>stdlib is a tower of abstractions (much like nix btw) which makes it<br>
+                nearly impossible to know what it's actually doing.</li>
+            <li>have you ever tried bootstrapping rust????</li>
+          </ul>
+        </section>
       </div>
     </details>
 
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