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> but I suspect the real reason people built high quality software in Rust is because cargo is good Do we actually have factual evidence that people do write
by deeviant 5y ago
> but I suspect the real reason people built high quality software in Rust is because cargo is good
Do we actually have factual evidence that people do write high quality software in Rust.
Something showing the average rust program is "higher quality" than the average C++ program?
- secondcoming 5y agoIt's unlikely that this evidence exists, and if the 'clone everything to get past the borrow checker' attitude is commonplace then we get stuck on what 'high quality' means.
- staticassertion 5y agoIt's way too hard to build evidence for something like that. Virtually all research into PL effectiveness ends up not account for the absurd number of variables.
- DoctorOW 5y agoHow does one objectively measure quality in a way that isn't dependent on the specific goals the program is trying to accomplish?
- bfrog 5y agoOne metric might be how long it takes a developer to build it from scratch given all the esoteric builds in C/C++ land. Another might be lines per cve in a given language. Another still might be time to fix cves per language. I'm thinking rust would come out on top of those, but would be interesting to measure!