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The actual modern Ada ended up being reasonable and the conservative design is justified. And it's no more verbose than Java anyway. Is there any writeup on the
by rini17 1y ago
The actual modern Ada ended up being reasonable and the conservative design is justified. And it's no more verbose than Java anyway. Is there any writeup on the discrepance between the hysteria and the real thing?
I think it was blowback to the hype. Rust, sadly, seem to be bound to end likewise as the rustaceans enthusiastically endorse AI-driven rewriting of legacy DoD C code into Rust. What can go wrong there?
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- Ygg2 1y ago> And it's no more verbose than Java anyway. That's damning with faint praise. Java is one of the most verbose languages. > Rust, sadly, seem to be bound to end likewise as the rustaceans enthusiastically endorse AI-driven rewriting of legacy DoD C code into Rust. Sure, some people want to speed up and/or automate conversion C to Rust, they are a minority. Going for 1 to 1 translation is going to be problem fraught with issues.
- pjmlp 1y agoI love verbosity more than programming with hieroglyph languages as so common in UNIX culture, need to save those keyboards longevity, a side effect from subpar IDE tooling. Microsoft is actually doing this as well, as part of their in-house migration to Rust, see RustNation UK 2025 talks from Microsoft.
- jvanderbot 1y agoAs a rustacean I am appalled by the idea of AI driven rewriting of legacy C. Is this a real thing??
- Ygg2 1y agoYou don't know about TRACTOR? https://www.darpa.mil/program/translating-all-c-to-rust https://www.darpa.mil/program/translating-all-c-to-rust
- jvanderbot 1y agoOh thank god, it's only DARPA again.
- johnisgood 1y agoWow, it is a real thing, not an April's Fools joke... Wild.
- pjmlp 1y agoMicrosoft is doing the same, see RustNation UK talk.