Mario Pastorelli

All the principal engineers at Microsoft that I respect are completely comfortable with asking "dumb questions". When you don't feel like you have to prove your intelligence or worth, you learn more because you ask better questions.

@AlexRoseGames @shaunspalding Yes, way too much.

anyone else getting a shit tonne of spam in the dms recently?

Let's try mastodon again. I'm @mariop@hachyderm.io on mastodon.

This is a great blog post on designing error types in Rust @rustlang mmapped.blog/posts/12-rust-…

I liked the Rust cliche, "systems programmers can have nice things" at first. But now it feels limiting, because Rust is so much more versatile than systems programming.

I wish more programming languages would dare to do things differently like Rust, Unisonweb and Erlang do. It's so refreshing to see new approaches to software development.

The versatility that Rust brings to the table is just mind-blowing. With the exception of GUI/front-end work*, it's a viable choice at almost every level of the stack. Once mastered, it's the ultimate Swiss-army knife.

I don't like the "best of both worlds".

@arialdomartini @ifd3f 😔

Functional programmers are like the vegans of programming

@vpatryshev @GabriellaG439 As an example, you don't have a IDE when you are reviewing a PR. You could of course load the changes locally and use your IDE but it's not very practical.

@GabriellaG439 what’s wrong with ide?

My first impression of Rust's standard library is that it's similar to Scala's standard library, which is to say that both are pretty trait-heavy I'm personally not that keen on trait-heavy design because it's not great for inference and discoverability without IDE support

@hryz3 @GabriellaG439 As a Rust developer who used Scala a lot I struggle to understand this. For me the two languages use traits the same way but I'm still learning Rust. Can you show me a case where Rust traits are more powerful than Scala one?

@GabriellaG439 Rust traits are much more powerful than Scala ones. They can have associated types. The coolest thing is that you can create a trait and implement it for another trait. Btw, they are type bounds, not types. Rust traits are zero cost abstractions.

I'm trying Tauri to write multi platform applications. The final product is nice but I don't like using multiple languages and styles in the same app.

@ShriramKMurthi Hot take: Programmers like minimalism in languages primarily for aesthetic/psychological reasons and the stated rational reasons (which do have some merit) are still mostly post hoc and don't fully justify. ...

Developers who say performance is more important than correctness.

@fasterthanlime what you wrote really resonates with me. This part in particular. Thank you for the wonderful read!

This is a good message 🙂 blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/20…

@GabriellaG439 Happy aniversary!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🎉 I came out less than a year ago so this is my first time being publicly trans on this day

The entire email is a huge red flag but the question "Outside of class, what were your interests and where did you spend your time?" in the context of the email is particularly bad. The only valid answer is "That's none of your business".

This is bad and shows how bad managers at Canonical are. Avoid Canonical, there are better places with better people and you deserve better.