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> That doesn’t mean Rust provides no value over C The real question is "does it provide this greater value for _less_ effort?" The answer seems to be: "No."
by themafia 11mo ago
> That doesn’t mean Rust provides no value over C
The real question is "does it provide this greater value for _less_ effort?"
The answer seems to be: "No."
- drob518 11mo agoNo, the real question is whether it provides that greater value for a reasonably acceptable, commensurate effort. Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch, and we all know TANSTAAFL.
- themafia 11mo ago> reasonably acceptable Have fun defining that in an open source project. > Looking for greater value with less effort is looking for a free lunch If you have to switch languages to get that value, then no, this has nothing to do with free lunches. > and we all know TANSTAAFL. The church of the acronym. I do not share your apparent faith. Engineering requires you to actually do the work and not rely on simple aphorisms to make decisions.
- timeon 11mo ago> The answer seems to be: "No." It is actually "Yes."