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memory safety isn't the only advantage. 0 cost abstractions do matter a bit. In general abstractions let you do high level programming in lower level languages
by Manishearth 10y ago
memory safety isn't the only advantage.
0 cost abstractions do matter a bit. In general abstractions let you do high level programming in lower level languages.
The type system matters a lot.
I used to do a lot of scripting. One thing I really missed was having a good static type system. These days I miss ADT enums in all languages.
Scripting is already moving in the direction of being more type safe (typescript, python type annotations), which is awesome, but I'd love to use something like Rust in that sphere.