When Zig is safer and faster than Rust

Re:When Zig is safer and faster than Rust by pjmlp on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @02:51AM (#35066389)

As polyglot dev, with love/hate relationship with almost any language worth using, until Rust gets free of "my compiler compiles yours", there is always an attack vector from those devs.

It was like this during the Usenet flamewars on C vs C++, and while I rejoice most C compilers now being written in C++, there are a few domains where C++ failed to take over C.

Rust advocacy strike force would do better to learn from history of programming languages adoption.

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Re:When Zig is safer and faster than Rust by scoutt on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:39AM (#35066695)

> until Rust gets free of "my compiler compiles yours"

I would better argue that "your Rust program runs on top of my millions of lines of C code, so please pass to my C API a pointer or a reference to a pointer so I can screw it up, and now all your safe code guarantees are out of the window".

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