jaisjdkaaaej

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   by jaisjdkaaaej 3y ago

   Perhaps they aren't writing Rust because those are the people that need to write unsafe code. Chicken and egg. I'm sure it you forced all the C programmers to switch to Rust you would see a lot more use of unsafe.
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   by jaisjdkaaaej 3y ago

   People writing C are the people that really do have to make syscalls directly, or use weird calling conventions, or whatever all the time. I see Rust replacing C++ but I have a hard time seeing it replace C because the people that desired a
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   by jaisjdkaaaej 3y ago

   And that's the problem, I do have to make syscalls directly quite often, and so I dislike Rust immensely. There are literally dozens of us at least, but the only people ever talking about Rust on the internet always like to drag C into
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   by jaisjdkaaaej 3y ago

   I'm not moving languages over memory safety and I'm not going to apologize for it either. I don't particularly like Rust and its not fit to replace C. If it replaces C++ I could care less and may even be somewhat supportive.