Disclaimer: I pretty much don’t like Rust, but most criticism of it boils down to culture war.

  • @trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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    382 months ago

    Some people just drink the cool aid and decide they have found their new Lord and savior in a programming language. Others just add a new tool to their toolbox.

    • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
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      472 months ago

      And some people pretend Rust is literally Satan, because the Code of Conduct, meanwhile companies like Twitter use it, projects like Ladybird use it, etc.

      • da_cow (she/her)
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        192 months ago

        The Linux Kernel uses it too. Its not a hype, and adoption is happening in real time.

        • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldOP
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          32 months ago

          I know. My main grief with it is that it should have been a memory safe language closer in looks and paradigm with C, but many of those alternatives are still new. Would have solved some of the drama surrounding Rust integration.

          • da_cow (she/her)
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            32 months ago

            Can 100% agree with it. Rusts type system is very unique and quite unusual especially when coming from C

              • da_cow (she/her)
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                32 months ago

                I am still learning Rust, so I can Not really say that much about it, but especially when considering things like Error handling it seems very good. No more returning invalid values. You just return a Result type and implement error handling based on that.

    • @jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      82 months ago

      Rust is the future. Notice how the C design committees are scrambling to replicate what rust does while C continues to lay eggs everywhere it goes