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Re:Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt gi... by habitue on Sunday May 28, 2023 @07:56PM (#36109005)
Just a recommendation, but learn Rust first. Once you have a good intuition about mutability xor aliasing (which is what the borrow checker enforces), you'll actually write better C and C++ code should you need to.

Personally, I think Rust is the future of systems programming and there's no more reason to learn C / C++ than there is a reason to learn FORTRAN or COBOL (specifically, the reason is only ever "I need to get a job using those languages"). But, you know, feel free to take that with a grain of salt and see for yourself.

Rust isn't going anywhere any time soon given how many big companies use it, so even if you learn C/C++ first, you'll likely need to learn rust as well eventually if you want to do systems stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt gi... by shenman on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:51PM (#36110060)
In my opinion, it's better to learn C first because it forces you to do a lot of painful memory management manually. You tend to really appreciates Rust's features when you understand how things can go wrong. Need absence to value presence.
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Re:Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt gi... by habitue on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:32PM (#36110351)
I kinda disagree, I learned assembly after I learned C and I felt like I still appreciated it
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Re:Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt gi... by Scarlxd on Monday May 29, 2023 @12:15AM (#36110588)
can you please share how you actually learned assembly and the resources you've used for it?
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Re:Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt gi... by habitue on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:50AM (#36111412)
It was in college, had a couple of courses that involves writing some things in assembly. There's not a lot to assembly, but when you write it you realize how function calls involve a bunch of arbitrary choices, and the stack is part of the c runtime, etc. I definitely wouldn't call myself an expert, but the experience was illuminating coming from the world of higher level languages.
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