Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available?

Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by pjmlp on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:39AM (#23510184)

Currently C++ is still a better experience, because using binary dependencies is quite common, so you don't compile the whole world, rather just your own application.

Then most organizations have staging areas where you can share binaries across the company.

And the two package managers that have been growing community support, conan and vcpkg, support caching and distribution of binary dependencies.

No doubt cargo will eventually get something similar, it just isn't there today.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by adamnemecek on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:20PM (#23511441)

You can do this with a build script.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by pjmlp on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:29PM (#23511497)

So goodbye declarative builds.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by adamnemecek on Saturday June 13, 2020 @07:22PM (#23513716)

I thought I cared about declarativeness, turns out I don't.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by pjmlp on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:51AM (#23515864)

Experience has taught me to always care about it, except when working on throw away hobby projects with teams of one, turns out not using it doesn't scale across organisations and makes for very unhappy DevOps teams.

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