Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by asveikau on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:19AM
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> Seconded that dipping a toe in to Rust has changed how I think about C++ and object ownership. Loose pointers and copy constructors now make me feel un-clean! Move ftw.
It's funny, because while it's certainly become more influential lately, that subculture existed as a niche in the C++ world before Rust and before C++11. So much so that when I first heard about Rust I thought "these are C++ people."
Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by Yoric on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:57AM
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The original (and long dead) Rust irc channel used to be full of C++ people chatting with OCaml people. Those were the days :)
Re:Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
by sitkack on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:46PM
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That entirely matches my idea of how Rust came to be, some sort of pragmatic co-development across two different philosophical camps. In many ways, Rust is a spiritual successor to both languages, if only it was easier to integrate with C++.
However I feel like most of the heavy lifting features came with C++11. Span, optional, variant and string_view are nice additions to the toolkit but more as enhancements rather than the paradigm shift of C++11 (move, unique_ptr, lambdas et-al).