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I don't mind the syntax, the bigger issue for me is that a lot of necessary features have been locked into nightly forever, like inline asm. If the language ca
by melissalobos 5y ago
I don't mind the syntax, the bigger issue for me is that a lot of necessary features have been locked into nightly forever, like inline asm. If the language can ever mature enough to have these features in stable I would use it in a heartbeat. Well, that and the usual issue with it having a severely limited back-end selection compared with gcc.
- joezydeco 5y agoMy secondary peeve is that Rust is still evolving. I get that all languages do this at some velocity, C++ being one of them, but the fact this 'safe' language is adding 'unsafe' feedbags on the spec just gives me an uneasy feeling about the ecosystem.
- ameliaquining 5y agoGood news! Inline assembly will be available in stable starting next month. In fact, it's available in beta (which is a lot less bleeding-edge than nightly, with a lot fewer bugs) right now. The rustc_codegen_gcc project aims to solve the backend-availability problem.
- steveklabnik 5y agomost of inline asm is being made available, but not all. My embedded project still needs stuff that's not stable yet. Still extremely excited that it's shipping.