I'm not on the Rust bandwagon, but statements like this make absolutely no sense.
A lot of software was written in C and C++ because they were the only option for decades. If you couldn't afford garbage collection and needed direct control of the hardware there wasn't much of a choice. Had their been "safer" alternatives, it's possible those would have been used instead.
It's only been in the last few years we've seen languages emerge that could actually replace C/C++ with projects like Rust, Zig and Odin. I'm not saying they will, or they should, but just that we actually have alternatives now.
OS kernels? Everything from numpy to CUDA to NCCL is using C/C++ (doing all the behind the scene heavy lifting), never mind the classic systems software like web browsers, web servers, networking control plane (the list goes on).
Unless it means sacrificing freedom.
freedom to shoot yourself in the foot?
how much?
That is why most of the world has not been using c/c++ for decades.
I'm not on the Rust bandwagon, but statements like this make absolutely no sense.
A lot of software was written in C and C++ because they were the only option for decades. If you couldn't afford garbage collection and needed direct control of the hardware there wasn't much of a choice. Had their been "safer" alternatives, it's possible those would have been used instead.
It's only been in the last few years we've seen languages emerge that could actually replace C/C++ with projects like Rust, Zig and Odin. I'm not saying they will, or they should, but just that we actually have alternatives now.
At least on PC world you could be using Delphi, for example, or Turbo Pascal before it.
Also I would refrain me to list all other alternatives.
One could rewrite curl with Perl 30 years ago. Or with Java, Golang, Python, you name it. Yet it stays written with C even today.
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That's not true when the topic is operating system kernels.
OS kernels? Everything from numpy to CUDA to NCCL is using C/C++ (doing all the behind the scene heavy lifting), never mind the classic systems software like web browsers, web servers, networking control plane (the list goes on).
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Most software development these days is JS/Typescript slop, popular doesn't equal better
You can write slop in any language. And good software for that matter.
Most of the world uses other languages because they’re easier, not because they’re safer.
They're easier because, amongst other improvements, they are safer.
People didn't use seatbelts before seatbelts were invented.
And when they were mandated, it made a lot of people very angry!
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.3649589