What a hypocrisy. At one hand they encourage free market, and on the other they do shit like this. This rent-seeking-from-US-corpos model isn't gonna work long for EU. Camel's back will be broken and everyone will regret, including this stupid policy makers.
When something gets too big, laws are necessary to allow competition. See USA breaking up Standard Oil and AT&T. Also USA almost breaking up Microsoft.
Otherwise you will ends up in Russia-style oligarchy.
What massive corporate breakup happened in past 2-3 decades? People keep referring those few cases but that was world and generations away, current politics (regardless who is at helm) are completely different and much more pro-megacorporations.
Free markets don't work. Corporations absolutely will abuse their position and power to establish monopolies wherever they can, blocking any new entrants to the market. I wonder how we (europeans) would ever regret regulation to stifle monopolistic behaviours from American behemoths.
As long as you don't interpret monopoly to have to mean 100% market share, but an overwhelming portion of the market, enough to be able to disrupt it, prevent any new entrants, and abuse the leading position without the fear of repercussions, plenty.
* Google in search, video, browser, email
* Meta in social media for massive age segments (what, 30-70?; younger than that may be on Snapchat/TikTok (too))
* Amazon in online retail, and specifically in online books and e-readers
* Microsoft in desktop OS and productivity suite, especially for business
If we go into oligopolies, where there are a very small amount of market players that can still abuse their position, we can also add video and audio streaming, mobile phones and tablets, CPU and GPU manufacturers, smart watches, etc.
you forgot to mention that free market does not exist anywhere. It's a 'free market bounded by laws' and each country, including US are free to design different laws for their market and companies are free to compete inside this bounded market. It's the same in EU. I'm certain there are no developed countries where marked isn't bounded by the laws/antitrusts/regulations/monopoly prevention and so on
Moral of the story: using Rust will not automatically make your code bug proof. It can actually introduce bugs that are of totally new breed and hard to debug.
I know you're intentionally spinning this as a bad thing, but it's really not.
Instead of worrying about simple and very common classes of bugs that can be solved statically with the help of the compiler, you are free to worry about whatever other non-trivial bugs in your program are remaining.
You're obviously free to waste your own time if you'd like.
I'm not sure I see where the bug here is due to Rust, or of a totally new breed. And the latter half of the blog post notes that it was fixed less than three hours after first being noticed.
Nope - This bug was not caused by the language. Also, no one has ever claimed Rust is perfect. What people are claiming is it is a good alternative to C/C++ which prevents a lot of common errors like buffer overflows.
Can someone else smell BS? 50K deletions in 3 days? It will take atleast a month just reading 50K lines, let alone understanding what they do and figuring out how deletion will affect the system.
Seems like this is an author of the product. They are likely very familiar. I’m pretty sure I can delete whole modules of my code base and know what is going to be affected.
I've worked on the codebase since day one. We structured it carefully so that modules didn't depend on one another. All shared components were in a separate folder. The structure of the web application lends itself naturally to such code organization.
