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Do the Rust drivers provide significant benefits over C equivalents (or over typical C drivers), enough to make it worth switching? Rust may have to really pro
by mmooss 2y ago
Do the Rust drivers provide significant benefits over C equivalents (or over typical C drivers), enough to make it worth switching?
Rust may have to really prove itself with results. And why shouldn't it?
- steveklabnik 2y agoThere are no C equivalents for the drivers I’m talking about.
- mmooss 2y agoI got that - that's why I added the parenthetical. My point was the second sentence. Anyway, thanks for the input about the drivers. And for what it's worth, I expect Rust would offer significant improvements.
- steveklabnik 2y agoAh, sorry, I misunderstood you. I don’t have a link handy, but Marcan had a post about how they actually re-wrote some in progress drivers from C to Rust because it was easier to do, and so didn’t expect a c version to exist. Basically it was about how driver complexity has increased over time, and Rust helps tackle that in a way that C can’t.
- mmooss 2y agoYes, I realized later that I should add 'efficiency' (for development) to security and stability, which could also be a big win for Rust in particular.