Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety
by verytrivial on Thursday June 15, 2017 @09:03AM
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I look forward to more "Rust proved to be great to implement this real feature/system/OS, here it is!" posts and fewer "Why you/someone else should use Rust for feature/system/OS instead of your awful and dangerous language, sneer!" (The people at redox-os.org are doing great work here I think)
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Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety
by dbaupp on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:30AM
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Genuine question: when was the last article to "sneer" on HN? There was the Linux kernel one a few weeks ago, but the meat of that that was more actual code proving that Rust worked in practice to replace a section of a large existing code base, rather than abstract sneering.
It seems like the thing that happens most often is people complaining about "RiiR" and "RESF" etc, rather than the actual annoying things those refer to, so much so that it has become a self-perpetuating meme seizing upon the smallest hint of the bad behaviour.
Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety
by jeffdavis on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:24PM
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Rust actually seems to have a healthy balance of "this is promising" and "this actually works", especially given the age of the language.
Just experimenting myself, but I've had a positive experience so far.
Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety
by bluejekyll on Thursday June 15, 2017 @11:06AM
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If you're interested in seeing a lot of posts about projects people are working on in Rust, I highly recommend https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/
Lots of great discussion on new tools, libraries, etc.
Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety
by Ar-Curunir on Thursday June 15, 2017 @10:59AM
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This post is exactly the kind of post you're looking for then?