Comment by vlovich123
3 days ago
F# will likely remain niche forever. It’s likely that Rust will not given its growing and accelerating adoption by Microsoft, Google and the Linux Kernel.
It just takes time to defeat the 40+ years of c and c++ dominance.
I will take C, C++ or Zig over Rust any day. For some people, like me, the Rust way of doing things isn't a good fit. It's not a model I enjoy working with.
I like F#, Haskell, Elixir but not Rust.
Personally I will always prefer C's simplicity to Rust's complexity. Could be just me.
I find Rust vastly simpler than C. If the code compiles, it's probably a valid expression of the business logic I encoded. I might've screwed up that logic, of course, and no language can prevent me from messing that up. I know! Many have tried, and I've defeated them with my ability to misrepresent my ideas! But at least with Rust, I'm reasonably confident that the code will actually do the thing I asked it to do. I'm never confident like that with C until I've run it a few hundred times without crashing.
(Yes, I'm familiar with the rich ecosystem around helping devs not write crummy C. I worked at Coverity at one point. If anything, that gave me enormous fear and respect of the hoops you have to jump through to be reasonably sure C code isn't completely broken.)
This seems...a very contrarian sentiment. Imho while C might lead you to create slightly fragile code once in a while, Rust is something like two orders of magnitude more complex.
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Rust like any language can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. The complexity raises with the performance of the code you write but that’s also true of C. Unlike C that complexity is combined with guarantees that your code won’t crash in weird and unpredictable ways.