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@pcwalton I'll take that as canonical, then. I'm probably showing my naivety, but I don't grasp the reaction to the comparison. Both are basically C-family lan

@pcwalton I'll take that as canonical, then. I'm probably showing my naivety, but I don't grasp the reaction to the comparison. Both are basically C-family languages, there is a distinct Mozilla connection, and recent Rust development does seem to be web-focused. Rust has a lot of features that one would like JS to have, or get right, if it does have something comparable. I think I'm missing some details. Is there a back story for why Rust developers wouldn't care for that comparison?

Rusky 9y ago
Those are all surface-level comparisons, completely outside the actual languages themselves. And in particular, this thread is about static analysis of pointers to improve ergonomics while retaining memory safety. Javascript's approach to memory safety is just to use a garbage collector, which is essentially the opposite of the approach taken here.