4 ms·

I’m glad that there other efforts for memory-safety going on concurrently, and we as a software community should absolutely continue to invest in those. I also

I’m glad that there other efforts for memory-safety going on concurrently, and we as a software community should absolutely continue to invest in those. I also agree that rust is not suited for all circumstances that people try to use it in - but I would contend that the set of situations where rust is absolutely the right choice is non-empty. I say this as part of a ~20 person team, rewriting business-critical software in Rust, where most of the engineers I talk with are glad they’re writing rust.

JoshTriplett 6y ago
It's certainly not just about safety. It's about the combination of safety, expressiveness, productivity, and various other factors.
- nullc 6y ago
  Can someone cite a peer reviewed study that supports the belief that rust increases safety or productivity in actual use?
  - shock 6y ago
    > rust increases safety or productivity in actual use? compared to what?
    - nullc 6y ago
      Anything well known and widely deployed would be interesting. C++11 would be an obvious comparable, but C would be relevant considering the thread.
ghostwriter 6y ago
> but I would contend that the set of situations where rust is absolutely the right choice is non-empty Maybe I should've highlighted it in my initial comment, because I definitely agree that this list is non-empty for Rust. I was mentioning specifically existing C codebases that are heavily used in production around the world (last time a similar topic was related to QUEMU project).