Heh. A couple decades ago in the early days of WoW, I was dual booting. It legit performed better under Wine than it did on Windows. Busy cities in WoW were well known to be fps killers. On Windows I was getting below 10fps, and almost double that on Wine (with the same quality settings).

Glad to see them continuing the tradition. I never did figure out (nor cared) how Wine managed to do it back then. Mostly cause I was too busy being addicted to that stupid time sink of a game…

Or, someone donated 2.5-12, Apple matched it and filed the whole thing under their corporate account.

Those were the times when I had to pull out my hard drive, ride my bike to my best mate’s house, and plug it into their PC so I could finish up a report due the next day. All because Windows 95 didn’t shut down cleanly and refused to boot.

Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I’ve done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn’t let go of Shift fast enough after typing the colon…

The meme refers to the old adage “C lets you shoot yourself on the foot. C++ lets you shoot both feet and gives you a shotgun to do it” - referring to the how C allows you to perform memory-unsafe operations (causing corruption, or worse, security vulnerabilities), and C++'s complexity, potentially obscuring such unsafetyness.

Rust’s memory safety tries to save you from doing (un)intentional bad stuff, by giving you compile-time errors. It’s also the bane of everyone so used to C/++'s ability to just pass around and modify whatever memory they want.