The comment they replied to literally said "Let's take a second to remember that copyright is the reason ~every child doesn't have access to ~every book ever written."
What? No. An ad hominem is "I think your argument is wrong because your face is stupid". "This is bad software because it looks like it's made by amateurs" isn't attacking their character, it's attacking their ability to write good software, which is highly relevant.
A lot of people are getting really hung up on this. "Modern Rust" is just current Rust. Once Rust moves on, that will be modern Rust and what we once called modern will no longer be modern. Like all things. You might as well get upset that somebody said something will happen "tomorrow" because in 24 hours it won't be "tomorrow" anymore.
It's only a limitation if your app is currently written in Javascript, which seems like a silly assumption. If your app is currently written in Rust, Electron has the equally big downside of "you have to rewrite your app's backend in Javascript"
I don't understand the distinction. If the UK is allowing tests of driverless cars, it must be allowing them on the roads, and of course "in January" means "starts in January", what else would it mean
So is your argument actually that it's not necessary for people to be able to do this? Or is it that it's not nearly in-depth enough. If you're arguing the latter, I'm pretty sure everyone agrees; this was described as his version of fizzbuzz, to weed out people who literally just can't program. If you're arguing the former, that seems insane. Knowing how a TCP/IP network works is great, but if you're incapable of writing code to implement your knowledge, you're not very useful
Are you kidding? If I can buy the rocks at $4 per rock and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to sell them to somebody later at $6 per rock, absolutely I'll keep buying the rocks.