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Having rust as the only low level language with ownership concept isn't ideal either.
by rat9988 7y ago
Having rust as the only low level language with ownership concept isn't ideal either.
- _bxg1 7y agoSure, it's just that right now it's trying to bootstrap that category in the first place
- phkahler 7y ago>> Having rust as the only low level language with ownership concept isn't ideal either. I dont agree. Proliferation of languages has it's down side. Very few are self hosting, with most being built with C++. Rust is a safe C++ replacement. We dont need a bunch of those.
- nwallin 7y agoNot ideal isn't necessarily worse. It is objectively worse for there to be two such languages, one of which is poorly funded and the other funded by Microsoft than have one such language that is cross platform. Also the Java oxygen is sucked out of the room by C#. All the OCaml oxygen is sucked out of the room by F#. A world where all the rust oxygen is sucked out of the room by R# and tied to the windows ecosystem is a bad one. They've tried this shit with a dozen other languages and besides C# being better than Java, (even though the .NET ecosystem sucks) it's always ended terribly. C++/CLR, IronPython, IronRuby, J#, etc. Having your tech embraced by Microsoft is the kiss of death.