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> A programming language simpler than C++.. That made me chuckle because both are quite the behemoths, as I have previously said. If they promised this, it was
by johnisgood 1y ago
> A programming language simpler than C++..
That made me chuckle because both are quite the behemoths, as I have previously said. If they promised this, it was a lie indeed.
- afdbcreid 1y agoBoth are, indeed, and I don't know if this was ever promised, but Rust is way simpler than C++ (today, at least).
- doyougnu 1y agoI haven't dabbled in rust since 2018, but if rust has managed to be as complicated as C++ while being a fraction of the age then I would think that would be some kind of macabre achievement in its own right.
- ekropotin 1y agoI have to disagree. Rust is not even close to behemothness of C++.
- johnisgood 1y agoPerhaps, but it is definitely not a C replacement, but a replacement of C++.
- vacuity 1y agoI think Rust primarily being a C++ replacement has been acknowledged ever since it was considered for use in Firefox.
- steveklabnik 1y agoThis whole idea of an "x replacement" doesn't make any sense in the first place. Language boundaries are not that strict. People say "Zig is a C replacement, Rust is a C++ replacement" but even Andrew Kelley himself says that Zig is a replacement for the C++ he was writing at the time. I work with a lot of C folks who never liked C++ who liked Rust.
- johnisgood 1y agoThen these languages' developers and/or vocal users should not have used it. Like you said, even Andrew Kelley said that Zig is a replacement for the C++. At the time. IIRC he kept going back and forth C and C++, although I may be wrong. I only remember him saying C++.
- ekropotin 1y agoIt’s hard to argue with that. However, I don’t see how it’s relevant to this particular discussion.