Re:Two Weeks of Rust
by fsloth on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:58AM
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C and C++ has certainly kept people busy for decades.
There is a huge category of bugs related to sloppy fudge-factor-based programming. C++ has great tooling but it's a nightmare on an organizational scale. If I was building an engineering org and had no other alternative but C++ I would be in shambles worrying that no-one does anything horrible, no matter how good the engineers were.
Re:Two Weeks of Rust
by vardump on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @08:11AM
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I write C/C++ for my day job too and 100% agree with you. I really hope Rust (or something else with similar promise, but I don't know any viable contenders) becomes viable quickly. Especially needed in firmware and kernel mode drivers.
There is a huge category of bugs related to sloppy fudge-factor-based programming. C++ has great tooling but it's a nightmare on an organizational scale. If I was building an engineering org and had no other alternative but C++ I would be in shambles worrying that no-one does anything horrible, no matter how good the engineers were.
I write C++ for my day job :)