If people wanna steal my code they can steal it, it’s why I publish it. It’s not that good anyway

I don’t agonize over every line of public code or anything, I just make it reasonably maintainable and generalized enough to be useful to people who aren’t me. If it’s a throwaway bash script with hardcoded paths and such, why would I put it up anywhere?

Not really, If it’s throwaway then I don’t publish it anywhere.

My open source work is published under my real name because I feel like if someone is running my code, they should know who I am? Also it helps with my CV and such. I don’t go into politics or anything controversial though, keep it pretty professional.

If only you and your family are using a service it’s better not to open ports to the public internet anyway. Tailscale or another VPN will solve this nicely and your ISP won’t be able to tell aside from bandwidth usage

I’ve had exactly the opposite thought - every tutorial or explanation I find starts from scratch with create-react-app or something when I already have a project and I just want to know how to use your library.

I guess I phrased that poorly - yeah you’ll move faster in other languages, but then you’ll have a long tail of debugging. Rust will take longer at first, but you’ll have less debugging to do once it’s working.

The rust language is designed to prevent entire classes of bugs which are common in other languages, so in theory rust code should be less buggy and more “correct” for the same amount of effort.

no