Rust lobbyists winning

      • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
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        54 months 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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          84 months 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.