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People said the same thing about garbage collectors.
by skwirl 3y ago
People said the same thing about garbage collectors.
- swatcoder 3y agoAnd sure enough, people practiced only in garbage collected environments are the ones who struggle most to work with Rust's borrow checker or write sound embedded/IOT code, or to attend to refence leaks in things like event listeners. Did they help people write lots of effective code faster? Yes. Did they breed a generation of people with little intuition around how memory works? Also yes.
- samatman 3y agoThis statement boils down to "people who know C or C++ have an easier time learning Rust" which is not especially informative, or even interesting.
- dns_snek 3y agoThat's a terrible comparison. GC is there to take care of one specific implementation detail in a "good enough" way so that you can focus on more productive work. People are starting to rely on LLMs to do almost everything they've been hired to do for them.