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Have any C developers jumped ship to Rust? I can see C++ developers migrating as the philosophy of C++ seems to be more aligned with Rust than C (C solves prob
by aronpye 6y ago
Have any C developers jumped ship to Rust?
I can see C++ developers migrating as the philosophy of C++ seems to be more aligned with Rust than C (C solves problems by forcing you to write more C, C++ solves problems by adding more language features).
I’m not sure whether I would enjoy using Rust as I dislike the verbosity of C++ with its more complicated syntax and multitude of “features”.
- steveklabnik 6y agohttp://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-rust/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-...
- saurik 6y agoI have seen--and agree with--the opposite argument: that C++ already has a lot of similar patterns and solves enough of C's safety issues that the remaining limitations become a tradeoff against the things where Rust is still far behind C++ (such as in value templates, to name just one of a million things), that the move for C developers feels a lot more motivated than for C++ developers (and the Rust people seem to de facto agree, whether they say it explicitly or not... when I have pressed them on things that make Rust really unappealing to me the defense ends up as "we were courting embedded systems developers", which is the only set of people I imagine still really feeling a need to code in C... though I frankly also can't imagine the ones I know of moving to Rust).