Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: D, Go, Rust?

Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by jerven on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:03AM (#10545796)

Not magically, but with a lot of technical effort Rust does solve those problems and at the same speed.

As in a Rust compiler will generate equivalent assembly as C in equivalent cases. With practically for now some places where Rust will win and some where C will win performance wise. But there are no practical reasons for Rust to be slower than C or C++.

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by cLeEOGPw on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @05:40AM (#10545903)

Could you rewrite linux kernel in Rust?

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by kibwen on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:18AM (#10546032)

Sure, but it probably wouldn't make sense to. Instead, you'd be better off doing like the Redox folks and designing your own Rust-based OS, with plans for a Linux-compatible userspace: http://www.redox-os.org/

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by wtallis on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:14AM (#10546020)

Yes. However, writing a linux-like kernel that is not 95% `unsafe` code would be a lot harder than just a straightforward syntax change of C to rust.

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