Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett (Intel)

Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by ChrisSD on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:01PM (#20821648)

Hmm... I'm not so sure the ideas themselves are unfamiliar. Any one who has used C or C++ has to deal with lifetimes (or at least should) and things like iterators are a very common pattern nowadays.

What Rust does differently is making ownership and unique/shared references a central feature of the language in a way that is amenable to static analysis. Obviously this is often a struggle for programmers to get used to, there's no denying that, but I don't think it's the concepts themselves that are unfamiliar. Unless of course the programmer is new to low level languages.

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Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by _bxg1 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:53AM (#20830018)

I used C++ for 4 years before trying Rust and I still felt like 50% of the latter was completely new. There's a huge difference between understanding how to manage memory and understanding how to satisfy the borrow-checker. Certain things - sometimes legitimate things! - that you could do normally are simply not allowed, because they can't be proven to be correct.

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