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Choose Rust. It has zero-overhead memory and data race safety.
by iknowstuff 9y ago
Choose Rust. It has zero-overhead memory and data race safety.
- ksk 9y agoI suppose so. As an embedded developer it appeals to me, but I haven't looked too much into it TBH. Do you know of any analysis done on the bugs in servo or any other large-ish project?
- iknowstuff 9y agoI haven't studied this extensively, but Mozilla made the following claim: >Mozilla made two previous attempts to parallelize its style system in C++, and both of them failed. But Rust’s fearless concurrency has made parallelism practical! https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-In-Firefox-Quantum.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-I...
- ksk 9y agoRight, I just wanted to examine it in the 'proof is in the pudding' sense where if Rust is as good as people claim, then certain types of bugs would be entirely eliminated. I'm usually weary of such claims :)