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Very cool, although not yet the same as well established production operating systems. I think Rust will be a great alternative to C in a decade and worth cons
by joveian 10y ago
Very cool, although not yet the same as well established production operating systems. I think Rust will be a great alternative to C in a decade and worth considering even now.
In case it wasn't clear, my "to a lesser extent Rust" comment was just about my impression that Rust can more easily be used without worrying about optimization level details vs. D or Ada or C. Which is a good thing if true since Rust can also deal with the low level stuff, although possibly it is just my mistaken impression (I only actually know C out of these languages).
- steveklabnik 10y agoYeah, totally. Gotta start somewhere :) I do think that you, overall, need to care less about optimization-level-details in Rust than in those other languages. But that's because we've made it so that the default ways you do things are already plenty fast; the idea is that the nice way of doing things is also the fast way of doing things, so there's no "well, looks like I can't do it how I want, time to replace it with something gross but performant." Of course, this can still pop up from time to time, but it happens more rarely.