Re:Safe C++ proposal is not being continued
by Hendrikto on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:48AM
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> Rust just shifts the effort earlier in the development phase […]. You may spend a few hours struggling with the borrow checker.
And by the time you got it figured out, the requirements change, and you’re back to struggling with the borrow checker.
> that saves you countless days of debugging highly non-trivial defects, especially in a larger codebase.
Seems like many projects never get to the point where the architecture toil pays off. Instead, they spend 80–90% of their time trying to find the perfect architecture, which is then brittle against change.
And by the time you got it figured out, the requirements change, and you’re back to struggling with the borrow checker.
> that saves you countless days of debugging highly non-trivial defects, especially in a larger codebase.
Seems like many projects never get to the point where the architecture toil pays off. Instead, they spend 80–90% of their time trying to find the perfect architecture, which is then brittle against change.