If Rust is that much better than C, why do C programmers stick to C instead of jumping ship?
If Rust is that much better than C, why do C programmers stick to C instead of jumping ship?
James Clark
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Anthony Richardson
Because Rust is not better than C.
Justin Carter
Isn't it safer and shit?
Grayson Price
It's better (except when it isn't).
But it's not worth rewriting everything. That's a lot of work.
It's also a tough sell to spend a lot of time learning it and changing the way you work.
I don't think most C programmers are more than vaguely aware of Rust, if that. Most programmers aren't in the programming language fandom. They don't visit Any Forums or Hacker News. They just program.
Ethan Powell
not in any meaningful ways, rust still has data races and deadlocks like C, still has memory safety issues like C, and has an insufferably ass type system like C.
Andrew Diaz
>memory safety issues like C
I was told explicitly by Rust devs that memory safety in Rust is simply a lot better than in C
Caleb Ross
It has deadlocks, but safe Rust has no data races or other memory safety issues.
The type system is insufferable in a way that's completely different from C.
Ethan Phillips
do not believe the trannies they lie cheat and steal
Aiden Reyes
it's simple. baby duck syndrome
Robert Cook
sauce?
Brody Foster
As an adult, I have to think in terms of actual practicality, rather than some shit meme
Ian Baker
Aaron Watson
>no memory related issues except the worst kinds of memory related issues like deadlocks
this is why i cannot take rust seriously, also the type system is super low tier smol brain. it makes me cringe to see people praise traits in rust.
Cameron Gonzalez
Deadlocks are bad but how are they memory-related?
Joseph Sanders
how are deadlocks NOT related to memory issues? you think all there is to a memory model is going out of bounds? that is how naive rust kids are.
David Bailey
If I wanted to learn a *new* language, I would learn something like Go.
Even mozilla pumped and dumped rust despite the fact that rust is their child project.
Connor Parker
>If Rust is that much better than C, why do C programmers stick to C instead of jumping ship?
I can answer that
Rust is a high level programming language reliant on c.
If rust is high level, and Mnemonic Assembly Language is low level
c is mid level
C actually enables a programmer to control the data processing more than rust could ever do.
it is why rust relies on c and c++ so much
It is a shit tier language
Rust is lesbo fucking trans pervert tier
Leo Roberts
Anything you can do in C you can do in Rust, though it may look ugly as shit
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Joshua Clark
you can also do it in javascript, does not mean you should. it means you should be shot on sight for being a retard.
Gabriel Miller
>you can also do it in javascript
You can't.
Juan Williams
want to bet?
Jacob Morales
There are massive amounts of well tested C code out there.
As of now the benefits of rust are not valuable enough to justify the effort required to switch.
Especially since I do embedded OS stuff. Rust, nor any languages I am aware of, solves the problems of timing issues and general bugs related to drivers not interfacing with hardware correctly. Thus pretty much any project I've written in C would have taken significantly more time and effort in rust to produce the same results, thus I currently see no reason yet to switch my C programs to rust.
People have been trying for decades completely to replace C, but once you don't have user processes and file descriptors, it becomes really hard to make a programming language significantly better then C.
Christopher Morris
Can't really write a printer driver independently in JS
Thomas Jenkins
use c++
Eli White
C feels like the natural way to communicate with a computer. I say that as a C++ programmer - C++ specific stuff feels like the distinct language of C++, and the stuff that's shared with C feels like it's just "the default programming language" that C++ uses as a base.