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No mention of Rust?
by maxharris 7y ago
No mention of Rust?
- maxharris 7y agoSo I dug some more, and it turns out that while he does have something to say about Rust, I'm not sure I'm convinced by his conclusion about safety: "Safety. Yes, Rust is more safe. I don’t really care. In light of all of these problems, I’ll take my segfaults and buffer overflows. I especially refuse to “rewrite it in Rust” - because no matter what, rewriting an entire program from scratch is always going to introduce more bugs than maintaining the C program ever would. I don’t care what language you rewrite it in." From https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-replacement.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/03/25/Rust-is-not-a-good-C-repl... (I think it's a bit mean to downvote me for not knowing that he addressed that point in a separate page of his. He didn't link to this Rust review at all!)
- detaro 7y agohow do you know the article by Drew DeVault represents the opinion of the author of the article above? Did he link it somewhere?
- maxharris 7y agoD'oh! Different person! whoops! So that really underscores my point, then. The "Why I Write Games in C" guy doesn't mention Rust anywhere!
- mlindner 7y agoHoly... Believe nothing that guy says. I'll just wait until he releases his first game with network connection and instantly gets a buffer overflow and his game becomes an entry for worms into people's systems.
- takeda 7y agoMost of network services are written in C, not to mention kernels.
- stompl 7y agoNo! No Rust. Get over it.