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It's not about proficiency, it's about not getting bogged down in programming language bikeshedding.
by secondcoming 3y ago
It's not about proficiency, it's about not getting bogged down in programming language bikeshedding.
- fl0ki 3y agoSigh. People don't even know what bikeshed means any more. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding If you think the differences between C++ and Rust are "unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues" then you may not know enough about either/both to contribute to the discussion. We're talking about differences so impactful and well-recognized that everyone from Google[1] to the NSA[2] is advocating for using Rust to reduce the unsafety compared to C++. Are you saying all of them are bogged down in bikeshedding? [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language... [2] https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Article/3215760/nsa-releases-guidance-on-how-to-protect-against-software-memory-safety-issues/ https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/News-Highlights/Article/Artic...