Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
by Mikhail_K on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:04AM
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> I'd be shocked if Mozilla didn't have some of the best C++ programmers on the planet,
Looking at their browser, I wouldn't.
Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
by acct776 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:57AM
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> If our tools require us to be perfect, maybe they're just not good tools for some goals.
> if they failed a few times, that's a pretty strong argument against C++.
Well, they're migrating (at least part of) the codebase to Rust, in a lot of places because of security. Make your own conclusion, I guess?
Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
by stjohnswarts on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:03PM
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The claim was that it couldn't be done, as in not possible. Not that it's not a lot easier because of ground up design for concurrency in rust, maybe even an order or two of magnitude easier. However to claim it can't be done in C++ at all is silly. To claim it couldn't be done by the team working on it with the given time frame and resources is a legit claim however.
It is entirely possible that the best developers on this planet using the best tools and methodologies, processes, whatever, are just not smart enough to do some things.
Considering how many things we have achieved, we should just acknowledged this human attribute: imperfection.
If our tools require us to be perfect, maybe they're just not good tools for some goals.
I'd be shocked if Mozilla didn't have some of the best C++ programmers on the planet, and if they failed a few times, that's a pretty strong argument against C++.
Who knows, maybe they'll be proven wrong and another team working purely in C++ will achieve goals such as theirs. I wouldn't bet on it (though C++ is evolving so who knows how C++ will look like in 20-30 years, never say never).