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  • Even though most of the specifics you point to are wrong, it’s a good point overall:

    Rust, being #1, should be better than all other languages. The fact that it’s just decent makes it seem overhyped, and all the downvotes on haters make it look like a cult.

    Back when it was small, the cult-like following was OK. But now that the language is becoming more mainstream I think the Rust evangelizers need to tone it down a bit or they risk pushing people away.

    On your point, TypeScript is a decent language too. There can be two good things.




  • kersplomp@programming.devtoScience Memes@mander.xyzWomen in STEM
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    We should always add a mental asterisk to the names of male researchers who discovered things while women were oppressed.

    That said, this meme is playing loose and fast with the specifics, which undermines that important message.


    Just picking the first one:

    Payne’s work was her Ph.D. thesis and Russell did not tell her not to publish it, her advisor did. The advisor told her not to rock the boat in her thesis. This is good advice that even Einstein was given. Payne, badass, declined.

    When Russell later reproduced her research, he cited her thesis as the “most important research” he’d seen on the subject.

    The real snub with Payne is that her title was “Technical Advisor” for 20 years despite being well regarded as a full time professor. It wasn’t until the 50’s she was recognized as a professor, when she was also made chair of the department.

    Source: https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/cecilia-payne-profile