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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by csomar on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:43PM (#23512110)
There is actually lots of Rust supporters in HN (and what other places you'll find people who actually know what Rust is). This extra-hype made people sensitive for possibly two reasons: Too much coverage (re-write everything in Rust) and the other one is the fear of realizing that Rust is going to take over some day.

Yes, I'm a Rust moon-boy ;)

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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by entha_saava on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:51PM (#23514948)
> extra hype made people more sensitive..

Sure, because you people talk about it literally everywhere.

> other one is the fear of realizing that Rust is going to take over some day.

It is not. It is a good systems language, not so much for application domains where other languages get shit done in half the cognitive load. just because rust community likes to promote rust for everything and involves in dishonest marketing that borrow checker is not a problem, rust is not the optimal language for applications domains where high guarantees and low resource usage aren't mandatory.

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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by buzzkillington on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:47PM (#23512130)
Or we've been around long enough to hear the same bullshit (a technical term) enough times that we are allergic to how different it is this time.

I've still to hear why Rust is better than Ada and I caught the tail end of that madness.

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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by oconnor663 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:32PM (#23514866)
I know very little about Ada, but googling it leads me to understand that freeing memory in Ada is considered unsafe. If that's correct, safely freeing memory (generally in a destructor, much like C++) might be one advantage of Rust.
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