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2021, State of the Practice. well except for using Rust, and a bunch of dependencies from the web, version determined when downloaded at compile time.
by bdavis__ 5y ago
2021, State of the Practice.
well except for using Rust, and a bunch of dependencies from the web, version determined when downloaded at compile time.
- Macha 5y agoTo be fair, Cargo defaults to using lockfiles, so you'd have to go out of your way to hit both your points at the same time.
- bdavis__ 5y agovery true, some hyperbole to make a point. "lack of newness" is a characteristic many will expend untold hours to extinguish. to my perspective, the "rewrite it in Rust crowd" is the peak; all non-Rust code is soiled, and worthy of replacement. (it is very possible that the "rewrite in Rust" movement is just a guerrilla marketing project)
- selfhoster11 5y agoI don't really care for Rust, but all non-memory safe code could benefit from being replaced. This does, for some people, mean rewriting it in Rust because C and C++ make it harder to achieve the goal of memory safety.