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Is this article "Use Rust" or "Stop using C"? I mean both are reasonable arguments that get made often on here, but the one doesn't necessarily follow from the
by grabcocque 9y ago
Is this article "Use Rust" or "Stop using C"?
I mean both are reasonable arguments that get made often on here, but the one doesn't necessarily follow from the other.
- EugeneOZ 9y agoFirst
- pm90 9y agoI think its a little bit of both. Primarily it is aimed at legacy software. IMO not a lot of new code is written in legacy C, so we have a problem with having a ton of dependencies written in a way that may not be the safest or most reliable (from recent experiences). The authors suggestion is to rewrite parts of those applications that tend to be buggy (mostly I/O parts) in Rust. I really hate to see the naysayers comment on this article without even having read it. I think the author made a very good point.