Readit NewsThis is laughably untrue.[1][2][3] They're lacked basic supplies for 30 years. Frequent blackouts also complicate or prevent many types of care.
[1] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250709-bitter-pill-c...
[2] https://cuba.miami.edu/business-economy/a-close-look-at-cuba...
Cuba has been under embargo for 66 years.
Most people ARE interested in coast to coast travel. It is called flyover country for a reason.
There are a few exceptions like the Baltimore corridor, or the San Francisco peninsula, and these are in fact serviced by good trains.
It is always shocking to me when I land at an airport in the US and there no public transport available.
It is common for conversations about good local public transport to have a retort in some sub-thread about how big the US is, as if the feasibility of long distance travel affected the feasibility of other modes of local travel.
You mention the SF peninsula. When I first moved there, I lived in the westside of SF and had friends living in Sunnyvale. On a weekend, it took 4 hs to get to Mountain View (~40miles, at the time, checking now it seems like Caltrain weekend service might have improved, so the same trip would take about 2hs), and then had to be picked up by car to finish the rest of the trip. It was faster (~3:30hs, if more expensive) to go from Paris to Amsterdam (>300miles) by train.
Also they completely stopped once the new anti-ICE thing became popular. Where are all the new organic No Kings protests? Everyone wrote about it in all the major publications and now we forgot(?) and the Tesla dealership protests? No normal person engages in this stuff, it’s hyper activists part of organized groups with real financing
I guess I'm not a normal person then. I didn't realize that I was a hyper activist because I drew on some cardboard and that my group of friends was being financed. I better go demand for my Soros-check from them.
1. replacing parentheses —given that the em-dash in pairs for me mark more-relevant-to-the-main content than a parenthesized expression would— so I use the same spacing as `()`
2. replacing colon or just finishing the sentence with a subsentence— so the spacing goes like for a colon.
Probably unfounded grammatically and against any style guides, but this spacing makes sense to me.
Now even if it is Flutter, React Native, or Chrome/Electron, they are powered by C++ graphics engine, and language runtimes.
Either way, I would like to reiterate that the comparison is flawed at a more fundamental level because hash tables and B-trees are different data structures with different performance characteristics. O(1) average lookup vs O(log n) with cache-friendly ordered traversal. These are not interchangeable.
If BTreeMap outperformed his hash table, that is either because the hash table implementation was poor, or because the access patterns favored B-tree cache locality. Neither tells you anything about Rust vs C. It is a data structure benchmark.
More importantly, choosing between a hash table and a tree is an architectural decision with real trade-offs. It is not something that should be left to "whatever the standard library defaults to". If you are picking data structures without understanding why, that is on you, not on C's lack of a blessed standard library (BTW one size cannot fit all).
Can you mention 3 cases of breakage the language has had in the last, let's say, 5 years? I've had colleagues in different companies responsible for updating company-wide language toolchains tell me that in their experience updating Rust was the easiest of their bunch.
> edition migrations
One can write Rust 2015 code today and have access to pretty much every feature from the latest version. Upgrading editions (at your leisure) can be done most of the time just by using rustfix, but even if done by hand, the idea that they are onerous is overstating their effect.
Last time I checked there were <100 checks in the entire compiler for edition gates, with many checks corresponding to the same feature. Adding support for new features that doesn't affect prior editions and by extension existing code (like adding async await keywords, or support for k# and r# tokens) is precisely the point of editions.
> dependency hell in Cargo.lock
Could you elaborate on what you mean?
Are you surprised? Rust is never inherently faster than C. When it appears faster, it boils down to library quality and algorithm choice, not the language.
Also worth noting that hash tables and B-trees have fundamentally different performance characteristics. If BTreeMap won, it is either the hash table implementation, or access patterns that favor B-tree cache locality. Neither says anything about Rust vs C. It is a library benchmark, not a language one.
The opposite is true too. Which is the point of the article.
This page gives a very loose idea of how we're doing over time: https://perf.rust-lang.org/dashboard.html
No, memory safety is not security, Rust's memory guarantees eliminate some issues, but they also create a dangerous overconfidence, devs treat the compiler as a security audit and skip the hard work of threat modeling
A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language
What about against a vigilant Rust programmer who also manually validates everything and uses available tools at its disposal?
C totally accepts breaking the third wall. And Pascal doesn't.
Problem with C currently is the language is controlled by people that think programming languages should be like Pascal.