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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by woah on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:13AM (#19272372)
Rust basically just enforces the things you mention
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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by pjmlp on Thursday February 28, 2019 @11:59AM (#19272798)
With the cost of catching up to 25 years of tooling and libraries.
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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by bluejekyll on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:27PM (#19273062)
We’re getting there. I dislike this argument, I’m sure the same was made in favor of C when Java came out.
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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by pjmlp on Thursday February 28, 2019 @12:42PM (#19273236)
I agree with you, it is just a call to reality to those "lets rewrite everything in language X", without consideration that there is more to it than just grammar and semantics.

Also there are plenty of domains where Java or C++ aren't even taken into consideration, in spite of decades of effort.

Just to cite Microsoft's recent security recommendation out of Blue Hat conference, regarding their own software, "use a mix of C#, Rust and constrained C++".

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