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While I agree that Rust advocates can be annoying at times, your last paragraph confuses me: which language do you have in mind that is both memory-safe and hig
by littlestymaar 2y ago
While I agree that Rust advocates can be annoying at times, your last paragraph confuses me: which language do you have in mind that is both memory-safe and higher performance than Rust?
Rust is legitimately special: being memory safe without any kind of garbage collection (I include ref-counting here). That's what enables its deployment in stuff like QEMU or the Linux kernel.
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoAlso, rust is legitimately a nice language. I get it that people get annoyed over the hype, but then they start acting like people like it just because they're morons who can't think for themselves.
- segfaltnh 2y agoAgreed. I feel gaslit by the gap here. I too find the hypesters annoying, but it's fun to hack on Rust code usually. Usually...