Comment by irishcoffee
4 hours ago
Rust has shown that it’s yet another language that kind of sort of addresses 3% of the issues c/c++ has, tops.
4 hours ago
Rust has shown that it’s yet another language that kind of sort of addresses 3% of the issues c/c++ has, tops.
Probably because like 95% of C++'s issues are self-inflicted and don't need to be addressed if you use a different language in the first place, and 1% of them are fundamentally unsolvable by any language.
I really don't like C++ but it's hard to come up with thirty-odd times as many other terrible problems as the ones Rust addresses.
lol. A functions module system that’s easy to use and adopted? A package manager? A well implemented hash table? Fast compile times? Effectively no segfaults? Effectively no memory leaks? Comparatively no race condition bugs? A benchmark and unit test framework baked into the language? Auto optimization of the layout of structs? No UB?
I don’t know what you’re counting as “3% of the issues” but if those are the 3%, they sound like massive productivity and safety wins that’s not existed in a language with a similar performance profile to C/C++.