So much time in my undergrad designing stupid inheritance hierarchies for systems (petrol stations, web servers, guidance systems), none of it even remotely applicable in my actual career as a dev. In fact, practically every time someone had done something “clever” with inheritance it caused subtle bugs or made maintenance and extension much harder than it should have been.
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This guy knows his stuff. Saw him on the standup podcast, and he vomits knowledge at you.
He is known for his work on Bink Video[2] and Granny 3D while working at RAD Game Tools, for popularizing the concept of immediate mode GUI (IMGUI) and coining the term [...]
Would an immediate mode GUI be a good match for Rust?
according to https://areweguiyet.com/, there are currently 2 distinguished immediate-mode GUI libraries for rust:
I don't know whether that makes it a good match, but apparently it's at least feasible.