Re:Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
by roca on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:14PM
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Rust and Swift are not in the same arena as C++ and Zig. The former offer memory safety and the latter don't --- a critical distinction, since the main reason Rust exists is to provide memory safety in contexts where C++ has traditionally been dominant.
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Re:Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
by oscargrouch on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:36PM
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Thats because you have divided the languages by properties and i´ve originally divided them over the class of software that can be written in those languages.
More as "system language" category, where you can code OS´s, JIT compilers, Browsers or any time/memory sensitive kind of software. Thats why they were packed together.
Classically, those sort of things could be only coded in C and C++ as the attempts in doing them in "higher level" languages mostly failed.