Sooo much inane naysaying in that Rust for Filesystems article. I’m glad there are people with the stamina to push through it.
Part of the problem, Ted Ts’o said, is that there is an effort to get “everyone to switch over to the religion” of Rust
I would say a bigger problem is that there are people that think Rust is some kind of religion with acolytes trying to convert people. Is it really that hard to distinguish genuine revolutions (iPhone, Rust, AI, reusable rockets, etc.) from hyped nonsense (Blockchain/web3, Metaverse, etc.)?
These things are very obvious IMO, especially if you actually try them!
Is it really that hard to distinguish genuine revolutions (iPhone, Rust, AI, reusable rockets, etc.) from hyped nonsense (Blockchain/web3, Metaverse, etc.)?
It is funny that you list AI under genuine revolutions while I would list it (or at least 90% of it) under hyped nonsense.
Modern AI (LLMs etc) is definitely a revolution. Anyone that has tried ChatGPT can tell that, just like the only people saying the iPhone was a fad were the ones that hadn’t used it.
The thing that is hyped around AI is companies just trying to shove it into everything, and say stuff uses AI when it is totally inappropriate. That doesn’t mean AI itself is nonsense though. The same thing happened with the iPhone (everything had an app even if it made no sense).
If the iPhone had been hyped like AI is today people would have claimed you could replace your hammer, saw, garden hose and cooking utensils with an iPhone.
Meanwhile current AI is pretty much useless for any purpose where you actually need to rely on a decent chance to get quality results without human review.
The quote (and the associated discussion) is such an important part of Rust and why I love this language so much. Anything that can be automated should at one point be automated reliably, and the sooner the better.
