Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust
by blub on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:23PM
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Many clean forks of "C/C++" were made and they're all dead because apparently it's not so easy to do as you think.
Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust
by mamcx on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:47PM
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Is not about being easy to do. Is that developers not accept them if not recreate all the same things that C/C++ have with the same good & bad, defeating the whole purpose.
Plus, this need a serious marketing push, and more than the work a few on them. Is each year harder and harder, similar to Cobol (where each year on drugs make you less likely to quit).
Now, the best hope is a painfully and too long gradual switch to rust or something else...
The HONEST question is because developers hate progress. We could have left in the past C/C++ by now, but not, is better to move forward with the same problems as DECADES ago.
Rust is a potential contender because is not that far from C/C++, and have {}, and the last point is not even a joke.
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Is weird to me why a clean fork of C/C++ was not made, if the prospect to move to something else was too much progress for the minds of the industry, the slow progress is a good alternative. You could have C.1, C.2, C.3, etc...
Think how much is about "modern C, modern C++, coding well" and then why not commit all that wisdom as the language?
The creator of Pascal made a point that a new version of a language must remove and correct the mistakes of the precious version, not accumulate problems.
That is fight AGAINST entropy.