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I think Rust is not about safety, but about reusability. Do you like to take on a dependency on someone's code when it is in C? The answer is: roll your own cod
by childintime 10y ago
I think Rust is not about safety, but about reusability. Do you like to take on a dependency on someone's code when it is in C? The answer is: roll your own code. Rust means the end of that.
Rust means software that can be written once and used "forever". Thus it enables true open source. In comparison C/C++ pay a mere lip-service, by also giving you, along with the code, lots of reasons to worry.
This is the real innovation behind Rust.
- oconnor663 10y agoTo be fair to C, I think C's answer here is dynamically linked shared libraries. They have lots of problems, but still they're very widely used. Even Rust programs dynamically link libc by default.