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Re:Why is Rust difficult? by pjmlp on Monday January 22, 2018 @04:00AM (#16202950)
Well, I happen to consider factory control management, weapon targeting and missile tracking systems, some big serious context.

Here is just one of them.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2006/10/lockheed-m...

"PERC Ultra offered Lockheed Martin the responsiveness it needed to meet its most demanding timing requirements. In addition to real-time threading and deterministic garbage collection, PERC Ultra provided the instrumentation and VM management tools necessary to support the mission-critical real-time requirements of the Aegis Weapon System."

"The Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis Weapon System is the sea-based element of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System. The Aegis Weapon System is a radar and missile system integrated with its own command and control system, capable of simultaneous operation defending against advanced air, surface, and subsurface threats."

Is that serious enough for you?

Re:Why is Rust difficult? by pjc50 on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:12AM (#16203488)
Is this where we bring in the anecdote about the missile flight control system which never freed any memory, because the minumum time to OOM was less than the maximum flight time of the missile?
Re:Why is Rust difficult? by tjalfi on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:46AM (#16205207)
Ask and ye shall receive[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14233542