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I wonder what's the consensus on HN about April Fools blog posts like this one. It's probably a cultural thing but I really feel like it's a waste of time, both for the readers and the writer. I don't want to be overly negative because of course they can be a way of publicizing cool things (in this case an open source library). It's just that every April 1st I open a lot of links only to be disappointed that their co…
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For what use cases have you been moving from Swift to C++ and what benefits have you seen? Unrelatedly, given that they all compile down to LLVM IR, in some sense Rust, Swift, and C++ are all syntactic sugar, aren’t they?
Yes, and no. I think Swift is doing some things that it can't optimize as well yet. I have some guesses about what that is (forced ref-counting, less control over memory layout, generics), but all I know is I'm getting significant performance gains in some graphics/geometry algorithms where I want to be a performance perfectionist and control everything. This is not a common use case. For building a basic app for iOS…
Especially if you're coming from Swift anyways (which is more closer to Rust than C++).
It is a bad discussion culture if discussing C++'s benefits is just a joke. "WE are better in every aspect, and joining the other team is sooo absurd, the idea is obviously a joke."
What was one of the benefits of C++ that was discussed? It seems like everything mentioned also comes with a terrible faustian bargain. For instance, C++ build systems are as plentiful as they are byzantine and torturous. Some new language features are heaven, but when your compiler hasn't implemented them yet, suddenly you're in hell. And the fact that bigots tend to feel freer in C++ communities than in rust commun…
So I pick up a Rust project about once a year, and I always try and keep with stable releases. Yet every project I find some small should-be-obvious thing that's nightly only, and I either have to swallow my frustrations and find a work-around or switch to nightly for the project -_-
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What was one of the benefits of C++ that was discussed? It seems like everything mentioned also comes with a terrible faustian bargain. For instance, C++ build systems are as plentiful as they are byzantine and torturous. Some new language features are heaven, but when your compiler hasn't implemented them yet, suddenly you're in hell. And the fact that bigots tend to feel freer in C++ communities than in rust commun…
>Some new language features are heaven, but when your compiler hasn't implemented them yet, suddenly you're in hell So I pick up a Rust project about once a year, and I always try and keep with stable releases. Yet every project I find some small should-be-obvious thing that's nightly only, and I either have to swallow my frustrations and find a work-around or switch to nightly for the project -_-