The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolution at NeXT

Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by jolux on Monday June 15, 2020 @09:05PM (#23534902)

I'm sure I sound like a broken record but Rust has solved the problem of memory safety lower in the stack pretty well with the borrow checker. There is almost no reason to use unsafe code aside from interop.

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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by cmrdporcupine on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:29PM (#23535393)

Sure, I'd be into it, if someone would pay me to work in Rust. That hasn't happened for me yet.

But there is a cognitive overhead cost to working with Rust. Or even just following consistent RAII patterns in C++. It doesn't come for free.

Trade-offs.

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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by jolux on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:26PM (#23545065)

Yep. ‘Tis true. I keep telling Rust people that I could do with less syntactic overhead and that sometimes I just want GC, but I don’t think it’s a priority for the community and they already have a lot on their plate and it does basically everything else right, imo.

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