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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (14 children)

But is he rewriting in Rust?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Unlikely, unless his view has changed substantially in the last seven years: https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html

I think his views on how to achieve good quality software are nearly antithetical to the goals of Rust. As expressed in that blog post and in Clean Code, he thinks better discipline, particularly through writing lots and lots of explicit unit tests, is the only path to reliable software. Rust, on the other hand, is very much designed to make the compiler and other tooling bear as much of the burden of correctness as possible.

(To be clear, I realize you're kidding. But I do think it's important to know just how at odds the TDD philosophy is from the "safe languages" philosophy.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The blog post? Yeah, that was the moment I lost most of my remaining respect for his tech opinions.

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