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Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by woodruffw »

Calling him the Azure CTO is strictly accurate, but HN readers probably know Mark Russinovich better as one of the primary developers of sysinternals[1].

I bring that up to highlight the weight of his opinion: Russinovich is legendary in terms of his systems programming contributions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals

Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by zibby8 »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #2

How much support does Microsoft give to the Rust Foundation (financial and otherwise)? Does Visual Studio (not VS Code) support Rust programming? Are there plans for an official Rust SDK for Azure? https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust

Why does Visual Studio need to support Rust when VS Code has amazing Rust support?

Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

woodruffw wrote: post #11

Calling him the Azure CTO is strictly accurate, but HN readers probably know Mark Russinovich better as one of the primary developers of sysinternals[1]. I bring that up to highlight the weight of his opinion: Russinovich is legendary in terms of his systems programming contributions. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysinternals

In the 90's before Mark Russinovich became part of Microsoft, he was doing interesting things like adding NTFS support to floppies (search "NTFSFLP")

Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by pipeline_peak »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #8
somewhereoutth wrote: post #4

For systems programming, use whatever the Linux kernel uses. For everything else, there is javascript.

>> For systems programming, use whatever the Linux kernel uses. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-in... >> For everything else, there is javascript. Scientific / numerical computations? GPU / CUDA programming? Machine learning? Natural language processing?

To be fair, anything done in Python can be said about JS and under V8 will execute faster.

But idk what OP is saying lol

Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by qbasic_forever »

ncmncm wrote: post #13

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Lol if you don't know who Mark is and his real world experience particularly developing critical and low level windows tools. I think it's safe to say his opinion on the language and its use with Microsoft/Windows is very relevant.

Re: It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++

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Post by gpm »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #16
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> For systems programming, use whatever the Linux kernel uses. https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-rust-will-go-in... >> For everything else, there is javascript. Scientific / numerical computations? GPU / CUDA programming? Machine learning? Natural language processing?

To be fair, anything done in Python can be said about JS and under V8 will execute faster. But idk what OP is saying lol

Eh, the main thing that can be done in python is calling all the libraries that have been written for python. Can't do that from JS.
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