Re:Why Aren't There C Conferences?
by nineteen999 on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:48PM
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Not that I am really qualified to comment on these things, since I don't program in Rust, Go or FORTRAN, but AFAIK the one thing that is often claimed to prevent languages reaching C/C++ performance levels is garbage collection, which Rust doesn't have (but Go does).
As we all know benchmarks need to be taken with a handful of salt since the publisher often has a vested interest in pushing one point of view or another for monetary or whatever reasons.
My personal view is that until we see a AAA game engine or mainstream operating system that is able to run a comparable suite of software to Windows/Linux written in Rust or Go, we won't really know if these languages (or implementations thereof) are going to be suitable for these things.
As we all know benchmarks need to be taken with a handful of salt since the publisher often has a vested interest in pushing one point of view or another for monetary or whatever reasons.
My personal view is that until we see a AAA game engine or mainstream operating system that is able to run a comparable suite of software to Windows/Linux written in Rust or Go, we won't really know if these languages (or implementations thereof) are going to be suitable for these things.