Comment by ost-ing
8 hours ago
I find with C/++ I have to compile to find warnings and errors, while with Rust I get more information automatically due to the modern type and linking systems. As a result I compile Rust significantly less times which is a massive speed increase.
Rusts tooling is hands down better than C/++ which aids to a more streamlined and efficient development experience
> Rusts tooling is hands down better than C/++ which aids to a more streamlined and efficient development experience
Would you expand on this? What was your C tooling/workflow that was inferior to your new Rust experience?
Not the GP, but the biggest one is dependency management. Cargo is just extremely good.
As for the language tooling itself, static and runtime analyzers in C and C++ (and these are table stakes at this point) do not come close to the level of accuracy of the Rust compiler. If you care about writing unsafe code, Miri is orders of magnitude better at detecting UB than any runtime analyzer I've seen for C and C++.
I do not think package management should be done at the level of programming languages.
Pacman is extremely good, too, for C. :)
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