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To be frank, this seems to be a general comment on rust as a language itself, than ferrocene. One would instead start from an observation that rust has been fi
by rdsubhas 3y ago
To be frank, this seems to be a general comment on rust as a language itself, than ferrocene.
One would instead start from an observation that rust has been filling a real need/gap in the market which can't be explained merely by human behavior alone, and looks like it's been quite successful at doing that.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes and? That is a challenge, that Ferrocene alongside plenty of other companies, including those that tried to push C++ as a safer C, have to deal with. There have been safer languages on that domain, like Ada, which for various reasons did not take off as expected, and it wasn't only due to compiler prices. Dealing with human psicology from folks that aren't even willing to update themselves beyond the toolchains used 30 years ago even though more recent ones are available, it is a challenge, moreso when the newcomers need a full rewrite, instead of updating the compiler version. I am on the Ferrocene side, just like I enjoy the surviving 7 Ada vendors are still around, PTC, Aicas and microEJ keep selling their Real Time Java, or that Astrobe its Oberon compiler, MIKROE their mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers. The more that challege the status quo, the better.