Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust

Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by klyrs on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:29AM (#22646085)

I think you've inverted the meaning of "zero abstraction cost" here. It's not that writing abstract code is well-supported and free; it's that the language basics aren't built upon a stack of expensive abstractions.

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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by hedora on Saturday March 21, 2020 @11:57AM (#22647400)

When I’ve seen “zero abstraction cost” used, it generally has meant that writing high-level abstract code is the idiomatic way to use the language, and that it comes with zero runtime overhead. (This is the main selling point of modern C++.)

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