Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond
by azangru on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:29AM
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Yeah, I was wondering about that as well. Maybe the parent comment meant the practical implications, such as C-like speed with memory safety? As a language, Haskell has much more wow in it.
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Re:Ruby Is Still a Diamond
by joelbluminator on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:58AM
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Does it have C like speed though? Have no idea. I guess I just don't care enough about performance for Rust to be a thing for me.
I don't really use Rust so YMMV, but what's genuinely special about it is that it's a new take on a system-level language with very modern features (Error monad, borrow checker, pattern matching, functional-like semantics) that were previously exclusive domain of garbage collected languages.
Honestly I kind of cringe at the "do everything in rust" crowd, if you need to, say, write an API, you can just do that in Python or Ruby or Go, 99% of the times the performance penalty won't matter and Rust is just a very complicated tool for that job.
But it single-handedly reopened the discussion on high performance, safe(r) languages, and I believe that's a very good thing even though I don't use Rust day-to-day. Projects like Zig are in a sense following in the footsteps of Rust.