Re:Will Hare replace C? Or Rust? Or Zig? Or anything else?
by OJFord on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @09:33AM
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And linking? Dependency management?
C & Rust come from different eras of easy-getting-started, IMO:
C - I just want to get shit done, I'm not taking on any dependencies, I'll just write it myself and sure it won't be the best but it'll do what I need and keep it simple;
Rust - I just want to get shit done, surely there's a lib for this and that, I can just glue them together.
So with Rust that's no harder to do than doing anything at all; with C it's quite a bit harder but also a bit easier if you don't.
Agreed that's not going to hold any weight in deliberating switching a million line project, but I do think it matters what hobbyists/spare-timers are using, what people want to work with, etc. Slowly.
(E.g. my day job is mainly python; if we needed something highly performant or embedded or whatever I'd be way more comfortable in Rust than ropey university-C.)
C & Rust come from different eras of easy-getting-started, IMO:
C - I just want to get shit done, I'm not taking on any dependencies, I'll just write it myself and sure it won't be the best but it'll do what I need and keep it simple;
Rust - I just want to get shit done, surely there's a lib for this and that, I can just glue them together.
So with Rust that's no harder to do than doing anything at all; with C it's quite a bit harder but also a bit easier if you don't.
Agreed that's not going to hold any weight in deliberating switching a million line project, but I do think it matters what hobbyists/spare-timers are using, what people want to work with, etc. Slowly.
(E.g. my day job is mainly python; if we needed something highly performant or embedded or whatever I'd be way more comfortable in Rust than ropey university-C.)