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Why is Rust being an overused programming language today? (fedia.io)

submitted 4 weeks ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Even through it has some flaws, e.g. it's not fully memory safe (there are some programming languages that are even safer, like Ada)?

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As a C++ developer Rust's borrow checker is very interesting - it promises to solve my issues with C++ without the issues that make other languages (ie Java, Python...) have in the real world. (remember we choose C++ for a reason, Java isn't correct for our application - if Java is correct you should use that instead)

[–] jansk@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

If you learn Rust, you'll find that you'd choose it over C/++ even without the brrow checker. Every little part of the development experience is just so much better.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe. I have millions of lines of c++ and making rust work with them will often be more work than just implementing the feature in c++

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only thing I hate about rust is how it does not respect my hard disk. It downloads all the dependencies and staticly links them into each project. Hrrrrrr