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What's really cool about Rust is not that it's a technical improvement on (Ada, C, Cobol, C++, Fortran, Lisp, Haskell, ...) because it isn't yet. It has some re
by eointierney 5y ago
What's really cool about Rust is not that it's a technical improvement on (Ada, C, Cobol, C++, Fortran, Lisp, Haskell, ...) because it isn't yet. It has some really great features, and a lot of potential. It's still young. gccrs is required. It has quite a way to go before it can rival some of the most important _languages_ we use. It's getting there.
What's really cool is the humility, flexibility, and creativity, of the community who develop Rust.
What's really really cool is Linus is holding a hoop into the kernel
- dodobirdlord 5y agoRust is absolutely a technical improvement on some of the listed languages (C, C++, maybe FORTRAN and COBOL). The borrow checker is truly novel outside of some research languages that precede Rust. The other languages you list are sufficiently different from Rust that it’s hard to make a comparison. Of course Rust is a technical improvement over substantially older languages. To claim otherwise is basically to claim that the twin fields of programming language theory and language design have discovered and achieved nothing in the last 40 years, which is an strange thing to believe.
- naniwaduni 5y agoSadly, we live in the world where golang is popular and backed by a megacorp.