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> Rust only gives us "the Rust way or the highway" What are you even talking about? Rust gives you plenty of choice, it even lets you create as many "non-free"
by adwn 5y ago
> Rust only gives us "the Rust way or the highway"
What are you even talking about? Rust gives you plenty of choice, it even lets you create as many "non-free" abstractions as you'd like.
- amelius 5y agoBut not at the language level, which is what started this thread. As another example: compare "GC'd versus non-GC'd memory in Rust" to "coherent versus non-coherent memory in CPU architecture"; here Rust gives us just the bare machine, while CPU architects give us quite some abstraction plus a choice. It is true that you could theoretically write a GC in Rust, but using it from the language itself would probably break ergonomics so much that you'd be better off with another language.