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> But the major players do seem to be happy to replace their C++ code with Rust. I would be wary of mindlessly referring to appeals to authority like this. Som
by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> But the major players do seem to be happy to replace their C++ code with Rust.
I would be wary of mindlessly referring to appeals to authority like this. Sometimes their rationale is very context sensitive. For example, Microsoft has been behind quite a heavy push for C#, and it wouldn't be wise to use that as an example of C# being preferable to C++. See for example Bun's recent migration to Rust which could be misinterpreted as an example supporting migrating to rust, but under the hood it's far from a success story.
- simon_void 2mo ago> Bun's recent migration to Rust which could be misinterpreted as an example supporting migrating to rust, but under the hood it's far from a success story. Since you don't mention that this migration is basically executed agenticly by Claude, it seems like you attribute this troubled migration to Rust not being that good of an improvement after all. For me it doesn't seem that surprising that Claude autonomously translating hacky Zig (according to Andrew Kelly #1) to unidiomatic (way more unsafe code that usual) Rust didn't solve the issues that the original code base already had. #1 https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.ht...
- locknitpicker 2mo ago> Since you don't mention that this migration is basically executed agenticly by Claude, it seems like (...) That's immaterial to the discussion.