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Have you tried Rust? Garbage collection is over-valued. CRUD in Rust is not as low-level as in C. > making low level detail leak into its module contracts T

by sshine 4y ago

Have you tried Rust? Garbage collection is over-valued. CRUD in Rust is not as low-level as in C. > making low level detail leak into its module contracts There is the risk, yes. Design a good API, and it won't happen. Onboard 50 people who don't care, and you'll have all sorts of low-level thinking when it isn't appropriate. This is the risk of a language having no ceiling: Suddenly someone is spending the "novelty budget" without asking.

kaba0 4y ago
It’s not a risk, it is always there. Rust just cleverly hides it behind syntactic sugar, but in reality every single API mandates the what lifetime each parameter should have (they are just generic to lifetimes, and it can be inferred more often than not). This is in stark contrast to any managed languages’ function signatures, and one will have to change to accommodate bigger changes and the other doesn’t. And I’m talking strictly about memory management here, sure Rust is a very cool language (it is my go to choice for low-level programming) and has a strong enough type system to actually make these refactors safe, but it doesn’t change the fact that this is simply of no concern with automatic memory management.