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I see many C++ programmers say stuff like this, and maybe it is the case that studios exist which can do C++ without mistakes related to memory management or sigils and so on, but I also observe that: 1. High quality teams like the Linux kernel team and PostgreSQL, do periodically have serious security bugs that are things Rust would have caught. 2. I see sometimes C++ instructors making the same claims you do and th…
I'd venture that the development slowdown from using rust is closer to 50% than 5%. Even just compile times probably slow down that much, not to mention you have to write (sometimes) as much as 10x code to express yourself. The specific exercise I have in mind is a lockless thread queue. < 20 lines in C .. ~200 lines in Rust.
Re: What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon
#191This is an ... interesting argument. "I can't write this 200LOC component of a large codebase in safe Rust, so what's the point in Rust?"