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I feel like Rust was designed to fully replace old languages, and is now facing the same issue as every language before it - C and C++ interop (both ways). Zig

I feel like Rust was designed to fully replace old languages, and is now facing the same issue as every language before it - C and C++ interop (both ways). Zig nailed it, Rust fucked it up. Time will tell if thats big enough of an issue to warrant some bigger changes to fix it.

zokier 3y ago
That is mischaracterization. Rust has been intended to be able to incrementally integrate to C/C++ codebases, of course most significantly integrating Rust/Servo components to Firefox/Gecko. See for example this rsvg presentation[1] and gstreamer blog post[2] for examples of the interop [1] https://viruta.org/docs/fmq-porting-c-to-rust.pdf https://viruta.org/docs/fmq-porting-c-to-rust.pdf [2] https://coaxion.net/blog/2016/05/writing-gstreamer-plugins-and-elements-in-rust/ https://coaxion.net/blog/2016/05/writing-gstreamer-plugins-a...