3 ms·
I didn't miss that you totally changed the subject and now you're attacking a strawman. See Steve Klabnick's response to your other comment where you did this.
by jibal 8mo ago
I didn't miss that you totally changed the subject and now you're attacking a strawman. See Steve Klabnick's response to your other comment where you did this. Of course macros are good for encapsulation and abstraction, but that's a different subject--and note that the discussion was about Zig vs. Rust, and Zig has no macros so there's unencapsulated unsafe code all over the place.
I won't respond further.
- kobebrookskC3 8mo agoi was responding this claim > It would be perfectly possible to design a variant of Rust that gets you to 80-90% of Rust's usability, with the same safety, without macros. i then present an api that i think relies on macros to expose a safe api > Of course macros are good for encapsulation and abstraction, but that's a different subject. no it's not. exposing safe abstractions is pretty much rust's raison d'être