Comment by throwaway27448
6 days ago
Why not rust? It's popilar, in wide adoption, with wide support, without the baggage of C++. What'e the downside?
6 days ago
Why not rust? It's popilar, in wide adoption, with wide support, without the baggage of C++. What'e the downside?
Well they already chose Swift over Rust because they said:
> Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop
So I guess from their point of view that’s why not rust.
I don’t have a horse in the race.
I was genuinely interested in why they didn’t even consider D given they already ruled out rust for those particular reasons, for which it seems D would fulfill nicely.
It is not backward compatible, the library system is immature, and there is no variety of different compilers for the language.
> the library system is immature
Hoo boy, wait until you hear about the state of C++'s library "system"