The Piston image library is now pure Rust

Re:The Piston image library is now pure Rust by LeanderK on Sunday January 08, 2017 @03:36PM (#13351836)

i don't know much about image libraries, but this is kinda the point. This is just a blog post that announces the replacement of a c-implementation with a rust one and i don't know why. There might be a good reason, but not in this blog post.

I don't have anything against rust and i would read a blogpost that details what they gain from switching to a rust-based library. But i am a bit frustrated by my subjective perception that recently there were a lot of posts on the frontpage that just do something in a fancy language.

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Re:The Piston image library is now pure Rust by kibwen on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:52PM (#13352560)

Didn't upvote this post, but I gather that people are excited that there's an alternative to C and C++ that finally seems to have some traction. This isn't the usual "I wrote a more ergonomic version of a library in a language that I happen to like better", it's "I wrote a memory-safe version of a library in a language that might be a plausible alternative to the languages that underpin all of our computing infrastructure".

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