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I believe that most of the C++ safety stuff happened independently of Rust existing. A lot of it started before Rust was a big thing.
by Manishearth 10y ago
I believe that most of the C++ safety stuff happened independently of Rust existing. A lot of it started before Rust was a big thing.
- kbenson 10y agoSure, but I would argue that there's much more interest in it now that there's a credible alternative that does care about it. That is, it existed, and people used it, but now people might feel a little bit of a need to justify why they are using C or C++ when then didn't before, and so their confirmation bias might cause them to look more into those existing safety mechanisms, and maybe even use them. Put another way, even if Rust were to disappear tomorrow, I think the net impact would have been very positive in that it exposed people to these concepts in a concrete way they weren't before, because they are optional in the C and C++ ecosystem.