Rust lobbyists winning

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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    3 hours ago

    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

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      1 hour ago

      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.

    • toys_are_back_in_town [comrade/them, she/her]
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      3 hours ago

      rust is quite annoying

      skill issue

      and is only useful in very specific circumstances

      huh? about the only place I can't use rust is on microcontrollers, and it's kind of a pain in the dick on mobile (just use kotlin lol)

      • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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        3 hours ago

        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).

      • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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        3 hours ago

        skill issue

        Most rust programmers don't know how to implement a linked list