Spoiler alert: The chicken went bad.

> an ecosystem that prioritizes safety etc.

Idiomatic Rust code is just as cavalier regarding NPEs as Java or Python code. Because the language starts to look really gross when you make your code panic-safe. So you have an `expect` here, an `unwrap` there, and now you're going to have the exact same runtime issues as the more expressive managed languages. No Rust programmer thinks their `expect` will panic, just like no Java programmer expects something will be null. Rust does not force you to "exhaustively match".

expect is a lot safer than ignoring a return code.

Java and Python don't use return codes, they use exceptions. If you ignore an exception your program crashes, same as a panic in Rust.

Well, no, the prudent choice for someone concerned with "safety" in this context is any high-level memory managed (GC) language. It's any boring language that has no `unsafe` at all. What you're actually saying is "I'm willing to sacrifice safety for performance," as invariably the objection to a high-level GC language by Rustaceans is that it lacks the necessary lolspeed.

It sounds like you're saying that anybody who diverges from your status quo opinions is some sort of mental terrorist. Excuse me, "stochastic terrorist."

Thanks for illustrating both the problem and the reductionist rhetoric so popular by those invested in making things worse.

I imagine there are people out there who are fooled by the lazy syllogism "you're condemning those who make up lies for personal gain and nihilism / people who make up these lies are contradicting status quo opinions / therefore you are condemning anyone who says anything contrary to the status quo".

But to most of us that's so obviously fallacious that it feels dirty to even engage with.

Bring me evidence of democrats drinking infant blood in the basement of a pizza parlor and we'll talk. But don't tell me that I must accept such things because they are contrary to what every reasonable person believes. And don't tell me that I have to either accept or reject every contrarian opinion as a single proposition rather than considering each one individually.

Any high performer who could resist the temptation to send a detailed narrative of their latest significant poop, with photos, along with a curt resignation, is a stronger person than me. It really seems like he's asking for it.

Probably not, OP hasn't left a single reply. Just dropped trow in our brains and moved on, classic HN move.

> This is a middle-upper class problem mostly, because the lower class fears they can’t afford school and often never try.

False. I grew up poor and couldn't afford school so I self-taught programming in HS to be able to land software jobs. I started work immediately and never considered school. Having grown up in a poor and abusive household, I strongly relate to OP: When all of your rewards come from one place (writing code), when one thing lifted you out of poverty, it's near impossible to focus on anything else for long. Like, what's the point in pursuing hobbies when people will just treat you like shit there. Programming (professionally) is the sole activity where people treat me like a human being: Money is a powerful motivator for them or something.