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Rust does not guarantee absence of memory leaks, does it? I think this is the general "rewriting solves all problems" fallacy, which is rarely true, but who wa
by uecker 2y ago
Rust does not guarantee absence of memory leaks, does it?
I think this is the general "rewriting solves all problems" fallacy, which is rarely true, but who wants to maintain existing code, if there is something new and cool? So we get rewrites which largely just add new projects that then have to be maintained in parallel, because they rarely are to completely replace the old (if at all) and at some point the new is not cool anymore and that it is just another thing. I like some key ideas of Rust, but overall I still like many things about C much more (stability, fast compile times, simplicity), so I would much prefer people improving memory safety in C projects.
- ilius2 2y agoI like Zig's approach much more than Rust. When you get fixated on one aspect and sacrifice everything for that, you get things like Perl, Java or Rust.
- tialaramex 2y agoSo, massive success ?
- pjmlp 2y agoMajor adoption across the industry,being taught at university courses, bootcamps, shipping in commercial OSes?
- steveklabnik 2y agoRust does not guarantee the absence of memory leaks, that's correct.