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Writing C++ is easier than writing Rust. But writing safe multithreaded code in C++? I don't want to write multithreaded C++ at all unless I explicitly want a
by ACCount37 11mo ago
Writing C++ is easier than writing Rust. But writing safe multithreaded code in C++?
I don't want to write multithreaded C++ at all unless I explicitly want a new hole in my foot. Rust I barely have any experience with, but it might be less frustrating than that.
- dwattttt 11mo agoAnecdotally, my "wow, this Rust business might really go somewhere" moment was when I tried adding multithreading to a random tool I made (dispatching tasks to new threads). Multithreading had not been planned or architected for, it took 30 min, included the compiler informing me I couldn't share a hashmap with those threads unsynchronised, and informing me on how to fix it.
- pornel 11mo agoI've had similar experience when the compiler immediately found unsynchronized state deep inside a 3rd party library I've been using. It was a 5-minute fix for what otherwise could have been mysterious unreproducible data corruption. These days even mobile phones have multicore CPUs, so it's getting hard to find excuses for single-threaded programs.