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Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die
An anonymous reader sends an article taking a harsh look at Rust, the language created by Mozilla Research, and arguing that despite all the flaws of C and C++, the two older languages are likely to remain in heavy use for a long time to come. Here are a few of the arguments: "[W]hat actually makes Rust safe, by the way? To put it simple, this is a language with a built-in code analyzer and it's a pretty tough one: it can catch all the bugs typical of C++ and dealing not only with memory management, but multithreading as well. Pass a reference to an assignable object through a pipe to another thread and then try to use this reference yourself - the program just will refuse to compile. And that's really cool. But C++ too hasn't stood still during the last 30 years, and plenty of both static and dynamic analyzers supporting it have been released during this time."
Further, "Like many of new languages, Rust is walking the path of simplification. I can generally understand why it doesn't have a decent inheritance and exceptions, but the fact itself that someone is making decisions for me regarding things like that makes me feel somewhat displeased. C++ doesn't restrict programmers regarding what they can or cannot use." And finally, "I can't but remind you for one more time that the source of troubles is usually in humans, not technology . If your C++ code is not good enough or Java code is painfully slow, it's not because the technology is bad - it's because you haven't learned how to use it right. That way, you won't be satisfied with Rust either, but just for some other reasons."
Further, "Like many of new languages, Rust is walking the path of simplification. I can generally understand why it doesn't have a decent inheritance and exceptions, but the fact itself that someone is making decisions for me regarding things like that makes me feel somewhat displeased. C++ doesn't restrict programmers regarding what they can or cannot use." And finally, "I can't but remind you for one more time that the source of troubles is usually in humans, not technology . If your C++ code is not good enough or Java code is painfully slow, it's not because the technology is bad - it's because you haven't learned how to use it right. That way, you won't be satisfied with Rust either, but just for some other reasons."
No, I'm pretty sure the heat death of the universe will kill those languages
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Sorry, I realize it's 35 years ago. You can blame it on senility.
No. Well...maybe. Actually, yes. It really just depends.
So they've solved the halting problem?
They may have made some improvements and are capable of catching many bugs automatically but to say "all" is quite a stretch. I have yet to see a source code analyzer catch all mistakes and have a low false positive rate and a low false negative rate.
Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it and they are simply capable of detecting bugs of all the typical C++ bug categories.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
The idea that C++ is a great barrier to keep out bad programmers is really dumb
Especially if you've seen much C++ code.......
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Nothing screams efficiency, well maintained, clean, and smooth running software like calling it "Rust"