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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 07:49:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Ubuntu, The Pussy Distro, Is Going Rust
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On 3/22/25 7:34 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> Ubuntu, the distro that's fit only for pussies and queers,
> is going Rust:
> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/

   First off, there's nothing horrible about Rust ... it's
   a perfectly good programming language. 'C' is far more
   traditional ... but CAN be (made) really hard to read,
   esp by hot-shot kiddies.

   Hey, I'm old enough to remember when 'C' was *new* ...
   great fun on the PDP-11s. Beat the shit out of COBOL.

   Ubuntu as a distro - DUMPED it years ago. Way WAY too
   many stupid unnecessary changes to the Deb base approach,
   too many Ubuntu Goodies that were HARD to dodge. It was
   becoming (HAS become) the Winders of Linux. Just got
   TOO - so I went to straight Deb for years.

   NOW, seems Deb hired too many Canonical rejects and
   IT now looks more like Ubuntu than it's original
   purist/root distros. Dreadful.

   Been rocking Fedora and Manjaro a lot lately. The
   MX tweak on Deb is still fair. Don't love Arch
   derivs ... but, gotta do what ya gotta do.

   I'll go Slackware if I have to in order to get
   sanity. Also getting into the BSDs, but they don't
   have up-to-date drivers for stuff alas. Still
   better (almost unbeatable) for exposed servers.

   MY idea of the better programming language base,
   still PASCAL actually - LOVE the look-&-feel  :-)

   Oh well, five to ten years, "AI" is gonna be writing
   most software/systems. No, you WON'T be able to follow
   hardly any of it ... back to Magic. Utter your
   incantations .........