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I was curious mainly because I remember some long comments he made about the relative value of linting and static analysis tools, specifically going into Coveri
by fatbird 7y ago
I was curious mainly because I remember some long comments he made about the relative value of linting and static analysis tools, specifically going into Coverity's analysis of the Doom 3 code (I think), fixing everything it flagged for some subset of the code, and then asking himself whether it was really better or more of a hindrance that obfuscated code.
IIRC, his conclusion was mixed: a lot of it was obviously beneficial and worth having turned on, but much of it wasn't, and going forward he intended to make it a limited but continual part of his toolchain.
So my interest in whether he'd tried Rust was whether he'd compared Rust's changes like the borrow checker against his earlier conclusions on writing good C/C++. Cute that he's tried and liked it, but I'd really like to see a more in-depth comparison from him.
- pizlonator 7y agoRight. He’s got some kind of notorious programming style with who knows what kinds of object graphs. It would be quite a data point to know if he thinks that he can comfortably map it to Rust.