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I'm not sure that's fair because most of alternatives suggested, eg OCaml, D and Ada, are all a hell of a lot more mature than Rust.
by hnlmorg 5y ago
I'm not sure that's fair because most of alternatives suggested, eg OCaml, D and Ada, are all a hell of a lot more mature than Rust.
- _flux 5y agoAs much as I like OCaml, I doubt we'll ever see a tracing garbage collected language in the Linux kernel. Also neither OCaml nor D make any attempts at stopping data races, which is sort of a selling point of Rust. Ada/SPARK, I suppose do, but I don't know at what cost; I'm sure though Rust syntax will feel more familiar to C developers than Ada, even if a lot of Rust syntax comes from ML. But it has {} :).