Comment by ksec
6 months ago
>Instead I see most of the bad faith criticisms of Rust coming from aficionados of other languages....
>They whine because they think Zig or Nim should take the place of Rust.
How about because Rust Evangelism Strikeforce go after other language first? Every time a language in the same space comes they get asked if they are memory safe?
Things have died down now, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
> Things have died down now, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I have some bad news for you. In the early 90's, C++ _was_ that language. Not only that, but at the time a lot of the reactionary criticisms of C++ by annoyed C developers had a lot more weight to them.
- C++ was slower than C, because the costs of vtables and exceptions was a lot larger and compilers weren't as good at optimizing.
- C++ was bug-ridden, both because it was easy to accidentally misuse the language, but also because compilers were simply buggy due to the complexity of the language.
- Many of the STL containers you know and love were missing from pre-standard C++, and even afterwards its implementation was commonly subpar, leading developers to either use their compiler-specific proprietary containers or roll their own.
- Streams were often the only reliable thing in the C++ standard library. It also ballooned compile times to the point of being outright banned from many codebases.
- Don't get me started on the utter nightmare that was sifting through compiler errors through misuse of templates...
So yeah, I don't want to hear other C++ developers whine about how annoying Rust developers are. We were just as annoying back in the day, with a worse language. Linus banned C++ from the kernel, and honestly he was 100% right to do so at the time.
> Every time a language in the same space comes they get asked if they are memory safe?
So what?
It might be shocking for you, but every new messenger gets asked if it supports e2ee these days.
Why shouldn't people want to know about the availability of a massive advancement in the space of system programming languages?
And yet at the same time naming Ada is forbidden?
It is not