Comment by thunderfork
8 days ago
>Good codebases already do what rust is doing with the borrow checker, it's not rocket science.
Rust allows you to achieve with syntax what these good codebases achieve through diligence. You're right that it isn't rocket science, but it's demonstrably challenging, given that plenty of people get it wrong.
People are certainly trying to bring more safety to existing languages (in various ways), and that's only a good thing.
> Rust allows you to achieve with syntax what these good codebases achieve through diligence
Rustaeceans often play this card... What you should really say is safe rust achieves it through syntax, yet as a systems language you will need to invoke unsafe rust, which by definition is not "memory safe". And memory unsafe is bad right? So bad it's worth changing the language to avoid it.... Yet rust doesnt avoid it?
I'm just not as impressed by that as you are
>yet as a systems language you will need to invoke unsafe rust,
This isn't generally the case.