The IKEA Effect on Software
https://medium.com/@khasan222/the-ikea-effect-on-software-95240dd58a3
(interesting perspective: "I've just built this so you should use it!")
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I'm not entirely sure why. I think Rust makes it easy to allocate data quickly, and sooner or later you write an infinite loop when coding.
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I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?