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I don't care so much about standardization as about choice, though, which is what standards tend to create, or the formation of standardization bodies tend to d
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
I don't care so much about standardization as about choice, though, which is what standards tend to create, or the formation of standardization bodies tend to document. C is simple enough to create a compiler from scratch in less than a year (as proven by Tiny CC), but sinking your precious time into a behemoth like Rust (or other language-to-rule-em-all with open research problems) is on another level altogether in terms of commitment. As the language hasn't finalized, can change at any time, only people with inside knowledge of Rust will be able to work on such projects. Others will have to take a significant risk of their Rust code base becoming obsolete, or Rust simply imploding due to lack of new devs outside the inner circle able to pickup. Which makes Rust an irrational choice in the presence of alternatives.
- oblio 6y agoI find the Rust complexity comment quite funny in a world where C++ and Perl 5 are around and they even managed to release Perl 6 :-)
- lizmat 6y agoYes, that's almost 5 years ago now. But please note that since then, it has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media). You can check out the Rakudo Weekly News (https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/ https://rakudoweekly.blog/blog-feed/) if you want to stay up-to-date on developments.
- oblio 6y agoDo you have some sort of Perl 6 alert for HN? :-p I know that it's been renamed, but I think you agree that it's still a very complex and powerful language.
- blub 6y agoIt's logical to be concerned about complexity in a specific thing even if there are other complex things in the world. That should be self-evident.
- oblio 6y agoYeah, but his argument was directly coming from a C/C++ perspective, which makes it at least a bit... strange.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoI was comparing directly against C. There's no such thing as "C/C++".