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Why Rust is bad, actually* (PowerPoint Karaoke) (youtu.be)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by qaz to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I have to say I'm not terribly big fan of videos with a title that is opposite of the message. It feels cheap. "Don't do X unless you want [long list of benefits of doing X]". Why do we need this?

A few years ago many countries were marketing themselves with "Don't go to [country name]", and it was cringe already then.

Edit: I actually didn't have any patience to watch the video initially, apart from skimming here and there, so I missed the fact that the speaker hasn't seen the slides beforehand and it's some kind of a joke presentation. Would have been nice to see it in the title or video description.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes. It's somewhere between trolling and clickbait with some rule skirting and should really be head on banned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

do you ever heard of PowerPoint Karaoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPoint_karaoke?wprov=sfla1

it is a means to pass time and have fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I see, that explains it. Would have been useful to put that somewhere in the title or video description, tho.

[–] qaz 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I get what you mean but I don’t really think that applies here. He’s arguing that Rust is worse than Go because Gopher is better than Ferris, it really isn’t that serious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This was actually much more enjoyable than I expected. TL;DR: A student who kind of likes Rust has to present a PowerPoint (which was prepared for this PP-Karaoke specifically) explaining very stupidly why Rust is bad.