Re:Killing the C++ Modules Technical Specification
by epage on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @01:28PM
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This abrasive comment from the author really put me off from the piece. Doesn't help that I first read berium's reddit post which disagrees [1]. He seems to be involved in build2 which has implemented support for Modules which garners more of my trust in this conversation.
Coming from the C++ world and being fairly knowledgeable about the language (not a full language lawyer but someone people usually turn to) and learning Rust, I find it rare for there to be bad comments from the Rust folks. I don't understand where this is coming from.
Now for my own judgemental comment. I see a trend of people in /r/cpp and other places ignoring the differences (like safety) or misrepresent Rust.
To be clear, I fully accept people having differences in priority (how much safety needs to be compiler-enforced). Its people who don't recognize the difference that I'm bothered by.
Rust is also foreign enough that a trivial glance can be misleading like assuming exceptions are the equivalent of panics because someone got caught up on them having a similar implementation (stack unwinding by default) when in reality, Result is more what people should look at (transport information, ?-operator for unwinding, etc).
Coming from the C++ world and being fairly knowledgeable about the language (not a full language lawyer but someone people usually turn to) and learning Rust, I find it rare for there to be bad comments from the Rust folks. I don't understand where this is coming from.
Now for my own judgemental comment. I see a trend of people in /r/cpp and other places ignoring the differences (like safety) or misrepresent Rust.
To be clear, I fully accept people having differences in priority (how much safety needs to be compiler-enforced). Its people who don't recognize the difference that I'm bothered by.
Rust is also foreign enough that a trivial glance can be misleading like assuming exceptions are the equivalent of panics because someone got caught up on them having a similar implementation (stack unwinding by default) when in reality, Result is more what people should look at (transport information, ?-operator for unwinding, etc).
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/75eqal/millennials_are...