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I am mostly joking but rust is quite annoying and is only useful in very specific circumstances. I'm not against encouraging people to use better designed languages than C though
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. For application code, it's almost always better to use a language with garbage collection, in order to get memory safety without undue ceremony. Yes, some gc-ed languages are slow (Python, Ruby), but others are quite fast (JVM, .NET, Common Lisp, Haskell).
If you're looking to write the types of server daemons often written in C, Go is another good choice. It's very C-like in its syntax. It has a lot of the same safety features Rust has but isn't nearly as complex to learn. It also has a huge standard library, so you rarely need to rely on third-party code.
Go isn't too suitable for drivers or kernels or other kinds of system software though. Rust is definitely a better choice for those.
Skill issue. Just write better code
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I am mostly joking but rust is quite annoying and is only useful in very specific circumstances. I'm not against encouraging people to use better designed languages than C though
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Most rust programmers don't know how to implement a linked list
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Fingers crossed I get this job I'm applying for where they actually care about this.
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excuse me?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. For application code, it's almost always better to use a language with garbage collection, in order to get memory safety without undue ceremony. Yes, some gc-ed languages are slow (Python, Ruby), but others are quite fast (JVM, .NET, Common Lisp, Haskell).
If you're looking to write the types of server daemons often written in C, Go is another good choice. It's very C-like in its syntax. It has a lot of the same safety features Rust has but isn't nearly as complex to learn. It also has a huge standard library, so you rarely need to rely on third-party code.
Go isn't too suitable for drivers or kernels or other kinds of system software though. Rust is definitely a better choice for those.
Yeah I've been using Go a lot lately. It's pretty good