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> Industry really, really needed C-like language that was memory safe, and all-round good: both low and high level. And Rust quickly delivered that Well, almos
by vmchale 6y ago
> Industry really, really needed C-like language that was memory safe, and all-round good: both low and high level. And Rust quickly delivered that
Well, almost. I'm not sure I like unsafe FFI and other bits.
> Personally, at some point Rust was just clearly better and after a while - I lost interest in D. I don't have time to keep track of D catching up
Yup. Better to use Rust if it's the one introducing the features.
- bigjake 6y agoSupport for unsafe constructs is almost critical to a languages success. There are certain things that just cannot be done safely, and any language that wants to be considered a systems language needs some method of providing that functionality. Usually native unsafe support is the cleanest way to go.