[davemp]

> You won't get anywhere with people who just like to argue.

Yeah not really sure why I bother. I think I just get bothered that Rust gets touted everywhere as a silver bullet.

> Tony Hoare's "billion dollar mistake", which was making null a valid value of a pointer type

It’s funny how we got stuck with his biggest mistake for decades and his (probably not entirely his) algebraic types / tagged unions have just started to get first class support now.