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I don't know much Rust. But your comment just made me appreciate Rust a lot more! To me, this signals that they value long-term safety over short-term convenie
by Peaker 12y ago
I don't know much Rust. But your comment just made me appreciate Rust a lot more!
To me, this signals that they value long-term safety over short-term convenience. Any other choice, IMO and IME, is short-sighted.
- oscargrouch 12y agoLets see after you try a big project in Rust, if you come back with the same appreciation. Most of the times i think is a overburden, I know people like Haskellers like to suffer and are masochistic coders, and may like this, but i dont.. already have to deal with C++, and Rust did achieve the impossible.. Its even more over-enginnered than C++, and its not even faster
- Ygg2 12y agoYou mean a large project like Servo, or large project like Rust compiler itself?
- steveklabnik 12y ago> Its even more over-enginnered than C++, Can you explain more about what you mean by 'over-engineered' here? > and its not even faster We are faster sometimes, and we haven't even put time into optimizing things. We're also slower sometimes.
- tshepang 12y agoI think you should replace 'time' with 'a lot of time'. I've seen several commits that optimize things.
- Peaker 12y agoIME, us "masochists" suffer much less in the end. We "suffer" a few seconds here and there when we get a compiler warning, forcing us to think edge cases through. Then, later, we suffer much less through runtime debugging, QA, and get a lot less calls at 2AM.