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Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by howdydoo on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:02AM (#20768146)
>deployment profiles

In other words, not all functions in the stdlib of Ada, Pascal, C and C++ can be used in all possible target environments? Sounds like a failure to quality gate those standard libraries.

Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by pjmlp on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:18AM (#20769042)
Nice jab try there, the suble point you are missing is that a deployment profile still is a guarantee of support.

There aren't an endless number of profiles.

Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by ajxs on Thursday August 22, 2019 @05:56PM (#20772764)
I'm not sure if you're just being disingenuous here, but you're right that you're not going to be able to use all functionality from the stdlib of Ada ( and others ) on every possible target, but you were never, ever going to. And Rust certainly won't solve this problem for you. It's not a consequence of poor standard library design either. It might not be immediately obvious, but even C has a runtime library, which needs to be specific to the architecture and OS that you're targeting. Just for a quick example, `malloc` is going to need to function differently depending on what OS you're running, and if you're targeting a microcontroller with extremely limited RAM it might not even need to be implemented at all.
Re:Thoughts on Rust bloat by nicoburns on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:48AM (#20777547)
I don't think the parent was claiming the Rust was better in this regard, just that it was no worse. Other languages also restrict standard library features on some platforms.