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> The memory issue will mostly be addressed as needed I have no allegiance to either lang ecosystem, but I think it's an overly optimistic take to consider mem
by wgjordan 1y ago
> The memory issue will mostly be addressed as needed
I have no allegiance to either lang ecosystem, but I think it's an overly optimistic take to consider memory safety a solved problem from a tweet about fil-c, especially considering "the performance cost is not negligible" (about 2x according to a quick search?)
- npalli 1y agoPerformance drop of 2x for memory safety critical sections vs Rust rewrite taking years/decades, not even a contest. Now, if that drop was 10x maybe, but at 2x it is no brainer to continue with C++. I'm not certain Fil-C totally works in all cases, but it is an example of how the ecosystem will evolve to solve this issue and not migrate to Rust.
- hexaga 1y agoWhat would you consider to be a non memory safety critical section? I tried to answer this and ended up in a chain of 'but wait, actually memory issues here would be similarly bad...', mainly because UB and friends tend to propagate and make local problems very non-local.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoI/O safety critical sections.