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Re:Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV? by pjmlp on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:51AM (#15346826)
If Google, Apple or Microsoft take their employees out of ANSI or from GCC/LLVM contributions, I can assure you they won't move much beyond the current state.
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Re:Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV? by blub on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:25AM (#15348053)
What are the odds that all big players would remove support for something that their platforms are built on? At the same time?

C++ is one of the healthiest languages in existance. It hits all the important checkboxes of standardisation, wide industry and platform support and large community.

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Re:Why did we choose Rust to develop TiKV? by pjmlp on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @10:48AM (#15348313)
I imagine you never lived through the days when each C++ compiler had a different understanding what it meant to compile C++ code.

It is just like trying to compile the Linux kernel with clang instead of gcc, with the source code full of gcc extensions.

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