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> Coming from a C++ background I consider the Rust library ecosystem to be one of its strong points already! In a sense, I agree with you. Certain kinds of fea
by pritambaral 8y ago
> Coming from a C++ background I consider the Rust library ecosystem to be one of its strong points already!
In a sense, I agree with you. Certain kinds of features available in the Rust ecosystem are much more easily available than in the C++ world, and there's been a lively pace of articles published about libraries and applications in Rust. But another sense I got from looking at libraries to use myself and applications to learn from was that the ecosystem is quite smaller and ... not quite as matured as the C/C++ ecosystem (I'm _completely_ ignoring FFI for this argument). Of course, all of this is completely natural, and I'm simply not expecting them Rust ecosystem to be competitive with the much older C/C++ ecosystem(s), but this realization does temper my excitement with Rust a bit.
- forrestthewoods 8y agoSome of my excitement is for potential rather than current offerings. But having a gamedev background we tend to roll most things ourselves. C++ is such a hodgepodge of mixed build systems that adding a moderately sized library is a huge PITA.