Re:“Rewrite It in Rust” Considered Harmful? [pdf]
by xormapmap on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @06:08PM
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> Do you not value the increased memory safety?
C offers an appropriate level of memory safety for the problems it solves.
I take managing my own memory over unreadable code and dependency hell any day. The fact that C will run on DSPs with 27-bit pointers is just an added bonus.
The ease of manual memory management in C is an advantage, not a downside.
And the tooling for C will exist long after rust has been abandoned.
C offers an appropriate level of memory safety for the problems it solves. I take managing my own memory over unreadable code and dependency hell any day. The fact that C will run on DSPs with 27-bit pointers is just an added bonus. The ease of manual memory management in C is an advantage, not a downside.
And the tooling for C will exist long after rust has been abandoned.