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I think everyone knows at this point that there are limits to the idea that the tech industry will solve all of our problems as humans. People obviously found out when Elon Musk decided to “revolutionize” twitter, or when Unity decided to charge developers 20 cents for every install. Under capitalism, the tech industry (like any other) is just there to exploit value out of whatever resource it can acquire. I, and many other people, don’t like that aspect of our world....

so i’ve had the chance to try out some Rust programming for a project i’m working on. first of all: it comes as no surprise that Rust is one of the most loved languages in most polls i come across. it’s awesome and i love it. i’ve never been sceptical of Rust, so it’s hardly been a conversion for me, but i’ve found low-level languages quite hard to understand. besides most language’s inaccessibility towards beginners or self-taught developers, most languages also have (relatively) poor communities & packages compared to more modern interpreted languages imo, but i’d digress....