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Rust is a unmanaged language. 99% of use cases do not need it and 99% of devs are unable to handle it's.

• MuffinFlavored 4y ago
  > Rust is a unmanaged language. Not quite sure what you mean. I've written some pretty cool stuff in Rust and never had to do any free() / drop()?
  • kaba0 4y ago
    Most modern C++ code bases also completely lack explicit frees/deletes, but not many would argue that C++ is a managed language. Though a more objective distinction is hard to give on what is a managed language, I found the garbage collection handbooks’ quote on the topic the most illuminating (linking to my older comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35332600 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35332600 In Rust and in C++ memory layout is part of your public APIs and has to be refactored when it changes. This is not the case with managed languages.