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Yep. I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM
by ansible 6y ago
Yep.
I think Bryan Cantrill's talk from 2018 encapsulates things pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU
Bryan is a hardcore C guy, and can write safe and reliable C code. But he has reached the limits of what C can offer in terms of composability and abstraction.
Like Linus, he wants and needs the kind of high performance and dependable behavior for systems programming that isn't possible with a garbage-collected language.
- ssokolow 6y agoHe also wrote a couple of blog posts called "Falling in love with Rust" and "Rust after the honeymoon": http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-rust/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-... http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeymoon/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2020/10/11/rust-after-the-honeym...