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i hate rust

June 25, 2025 at 09:57 PM

Ru$t (also known as Rust, Rustlang) is a general-purpose programming language emphasizing performance, type safety, and concurrency. (my ass)

it’s a type system cult

you can’t write hello world without the compiler breathing down your neck. oh you used a string? wrong string. oh you cloned? shouldn’t have cloned. oh you didn’t clone? why not clone? you spend 90% of your time fighting the borrow checker and 10% writing actual code. and then people act like this is a good thing.

the compiler is a sadist

the rust compiler doesn’t help you, it tests you. like some kind of dominatrix AI whispering “you’re not worthy yet” every time you hit build. “oh you wanted to mutate this variable across a thread safely?” hope you like writing a novel in lifetimes, traits, and Arc<Mutex<Option<Whatever>>> hell.

rustaceans are insufferable

every forum, every thread, every git issue, some rust fanboy is waiting to tell you how you’re Doing It Wrong™ and how you should be grateful to be beaten into submission by their beautiful language. they treat rust like a religion. a cargo cult, literally. you’re not writing code, you’re becoming enlightened.

it’s not fast, it’s just painful

people act like rust is magically fast. it’s not. it’s fast because it forces you to be a compiler engineer. writing low-level C is faster, simpler, and doesn’t require a doctorate in type theory. rust just makes you prove to the compiler that you’re worthy of touching memory.

“memory safety” is a cope

yeah, cool, no segfaults, but you’ll still write the same dumb logic errors like any other language. you just spent 8 hours fighting the borrow checker to end up with a program that still doesn’t do what it’s supposed to. but hey, at least it didn’t segfault, right? right??

it’s made by soydevs and trannies

have you seen rustconf? enough said. it’s all corporate techbros (or trannies) high on types and functional purity trying to reinvent C++ but with more steps.

alternatives for this garbage

tldr: rust is a cargo cult masquerading as a systems language. it wastes your time and your sanity.