Rust lobbyists winning

    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 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]@hexbear.net
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        16 minutes 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.

        • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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          2 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).