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Indeed. I'm still not entirely sure why Rust was created when we have Ada, but if I had to guess it's mainly because Rust has slightly more advanced tricks for
by kqr 2y ago
Indeed. I'm still not entirely sure why Rust was created when we have Ada, but if I had to guess it's mainly because Rust has slightly more advanced tricks for safe memory management, and to some degree because Rust has curly braces.
- jhbadger 2y agoAda use was strongly tied to the US DoD, which put some people off it, for one.
- kragen 2y agoAda doesn't attempt to statically exclude data races or aliasing bugs. Rust does. I guess you're calling that "slightly more advanced tricks for safe memory management", which sounds wildly inaccurate to me; those problems aren't usually considered "memory management" at all. Rust also has better error handling, a stronger static type system, a Turing-complete compile-time macro system, and much less verbose code.