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Are you really arguing that Rust is currently redundant because of a language that hasn't hit v1.0.0 yet, has no industry support, and doesn't use a modern buil

• ghostwriter 6y ago
  I do really argue that Rust is redundant for C developers who want to bring some extra safety into their projects without disrupting their toolchains and practices. I also argue that this extra safety can bring more than Rust is capable of providing. Now, what's the technical merit of Rust that justifies spending time learning it when the same time can be spent on bringing ATS into the same codebase/toolchain one function at a time? What's the point of waiting for 1.0.0? It's just a tag that doesn't save you from bugs and breaking changes. What is industry support? What does it have to do with a team where everyone can read the documentation of the tool that is already built on top of a mature GCC ecosystem and that adheres existing approaches to debugging, profiling, releasing and maintaining C codebases? > and doesn't use a modern build system or package Why do I need a separate solution such as Cargo if I can build, package, and distribute everything with Nix and get reproducibility, distributed builds, transparent caching, and environment isolation along the way for free?