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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) by wyldfire on Sunday May 03, 2020 @11:39AM (#23059641)
> However there is a rampant fiction that if you supply a new safer method everyone will use it. For gods sake, the simplest of concepts like the stack protector took nearly 10 years for adoption, let people should switch languages? DELUSION.

Yeah, I agree: if the sole value proposition were 'security' it would be a really slow roll. cargo is the killer app IMO. Anyone who's walked a big dependency tree - download, build, oh oops this requires libfoo - download, build, oh oops that requires libbar...

But I think lots of coders land on rust because they want or need something faster or more portable than Python or JS and rust is 'easier' than C.

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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) by zerpelin68 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @01:10PM (#23060327)
Why is rust easier than C? Is it because it makes what is simple in C hard?
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Re:Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017) by Ar-Curunir on Sunday May 03, 2020 @03:45PM (#23061335)
Because it makes what’s hard in C easy: dependency management, cross-compilation, memory safety, etc.
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