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You can just toss out names of qualities and it might impress someone with no experience but to the rest of us we're just waving our hands like "ok.. and then?"
by aliqot 4y ago
You can just toss out names of qualities and it might impress someone with no experience but to the rest of us we're just waving our hands like "ok.. and then?" waiting for the substance, which this comment provides none of
- hardwaregeek 4y agoI'm not sure I agree. If anything someone with experience has first-hand knowledge of the perils of buffer overflows, double frees, and other memory bugs. Sure we can go into more detail but it's a little disingenuous to act as if someone with experience writing C would not be able to fill in the blanks.
- aliqot 4y ago>someone with experience writing C would not be able to fill in the blanks. "yeah well if you're smart you wouldn't need explanation" except the people you're swaying with such remarks aren't the ones who already know, its the ones who are afraid to ask lest they be judged so they just kinda laugh along and parrot the smartest-bully.
- flykespice 4y agoI have never worked with Rust but seeing major operating systems and critical softwares gradually adopting, and other developers reporting less segfaults when replacing their codebase with Rust is convincing enough for me to try it out.