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> However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer method everyone will use it. For gods sake, the simplest of concepts like the stack protect
by wyldfire 7y ago
> However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer
method everyone will use it. For gods sake, the simplest of concepts
like the stack protector took nearly 10 years for adoption, let people should switch languages? DELUSION.
Yeah, I agree: if the sole value proposition were 'security' it would be a really slow roll. cargo is the killer app IMO. Anyone who's walked a big dependency tree - download, build, oh oops this requires libfoo - download, build, oh oops that requires libbar...
But I think lots of coders land on rust because they want or need something faster or more portable than Python or JS and rust is 'easier' than C.
- zerpelin68 7y agoWhy is rust easier than C? Is it because it makes what is simple in C hard?
- Ar-Curunir 7y agoBecause it makes what’s hard in C easy: dependency management, cross-compilation, memory safety, etc.