Unsafe is one of the most important things in rust. The point is that you stick all the unsafety into well marked areas that can be more easily checked.
You don't actually explain why Mojo doesn't need Pin, you just say that it works. Does Mojo automatically fix up self referential pointers on moves or something?
So to be clear, you want it to be harder to update the compiler? I cannot interpret "rustup seems to encourage that behavior" as anything else but that.
> Their comment is about the (almost universally straight) people who demand to be called 'xe' or 'qwerty' or whatever.
The vast majority of people I’ve seen using neopronouns, or “it” or “they” pronouns (either exclusively or alternatively with classical gendered pronouns, e.g., “she/they”) have nonbinary gender identity or agender identity, and the vast majority of the exceptions are trans, and all the rest (i.e., the cisgender ones) I’ve encountered are one of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, or same-gender attracted, usually also with gender non-conforming presentation.
I have yet to encounter a cisgender heterosexual with nontraditional pronouns for their gender, though I am sure there are some somewhere doing it.
> The vast majority of people I’ve seen using neopronouns, or “it” or “they” pronouns (either exclusively or alternatively with classical gendered pronouns, e.g., “she/they”) have nonbinary gender identity or agender identity, and the vast majority of the exceptions are trans, and all the rest (i.e., the cisgender ones) I’ve encountered are one of bisexual, pansexual, asexual, or same-gender attracted, usually also with gender non-conforming presentation.
Yes, I'm talking about sexuality, not gender. Most of the people I know, and/or have met, who identify as 'xe' and suchlike, are straight and usually cis (in the sense of 'not actually trans' - they do often have 'gender identities' like 'genderqueer' which amount to 'I wear heels sometimes').
It's predominantly - in my experience - straight people who covet the counter-cultural aspect of being 'queer', but who face the small problem of not actually being gay or trans or anything else, which is easily remedied by adopting one of those slightly-meaningless 'gender identities' which uniformly amount to 'I'm a teeny bit [masc/femme] sometimes'.
(I literally had a conversation with someone once who argued that watching porn didn't mean they weren't asexual. They also happened to be in a long marriage with a husband they no longer slept with, though they once had. It took all my strength not to say "lady, you're not asexual or queer, you're just a bored housewife in a dead marriage".)
There's still a lot of people out there who consider 'they/them' to be nonstandard when used for a specific person (as opposed to 'they/them' as a replacement for the generic 'he'; almost everybody opposed to that has come around or died).
Yeah, I should have clarified that I don’t consider that non-standard. Well, it’s semi-standard, I suppose. But yeah, I had in mind the ones more like ‘xe’ and ‘xer’.
Sorry, that's true, I didn't mean that literally no trans people (or gay people, black people, etc) use non-standard pronouns. I meant that it has nothing to do with their being gay or trans. Certainly some people may happen to be trans and also happen to use those pronouns.
