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Does the article you linked necessarily contradicts Drew points (C's portability, spec, implementations, stable ABI, and safety isn't always needed)? Yes, Rust
by forgotpwd16 5y ago
Does the article you linked necessarily contradicts Drew points (C's portability, spec, implementations, stable ABI, and safety isn't always needed)? Yes, Rust may be a better choice for some (many) use cases but you cannot say it's "like C" or "better C". Like how you wouldn't (I guess) refer to Go as like or better Python although many Go devs are former Pythonistas.
- steveklabnik 5y agoMaybe this exact one doesn’t say exactly against that specific article. It’s not a direct response to it, so it wouldn’t. But the line some people espouse is “Rust is a new C++ not a new C and C programmers who don’t like C++ would never like Rust,” and while some folks do feel that way, it isn’t universal. That’s all I’m saying. C programmers are numerous and in a variety of fields doing all sorts of things, pretending you can speak about this stuff as though there’s a monolith of opinion is a category error, in my opinion.
- forgotpwd16 5y ago>“Rust is a new C++ not a new C and C programmers who don’t like C++ would never like Rust,” and while some folks do feel that way, it isn’t universal. Oh, okay. I understand the point you're making.