Even through it has some flaws, e.g. it’s not fully memory safe (there are some programming languages that are even safer, like Ada)?

    • ryujin470@fedia.ioOP
      31·
      3 days ago

      Just in my opinion. It’s probably a trending programming language right now. More loved than C or C++ by some developers

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        3·
        2 days ago

        The older something is, the more people grow used to it, but also have had a chance to get burned by it:

        • C was released in 1972 (52 years), C99 was released in 1999 (25 years), hasn’t changed much since
        • C++ was released in 1998 (26 years), there are 7 versions of C++ with notable changes
        • Rust was released in 2015 (9 years), it’s still on the same 1.x version implying backwards compatibility

        Rust was created to fix some of the problems C and C++ have had for decades, it’s only logical that people like it more… for now.

      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
        44·
        3 days ago

        You’re upset that new technology is displacing a 50 year old technology with a ton of well known flaws?

      • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
        38·
        3 days ago

        It’s a hyped language because it solves many problems that has persisted with C and C++ - without having to rely on garbage collection.

        If anything, it’s underused. Not that I believe everything should be rewritten in Rust. That’s just stupid.

        • bluGill@fedia.io
          6·
          3 days ago

          As a C++ developer Rust’s borrow checker is very interesting - it promises to solve my issues with C++ without the issues that make other languages (ie Java, Python…) have in the real world. (remember we choose C++ for a reason, Java isn’t correct for our application - if Java is correct you should use that instead)

          • jansk@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 days ago

            If you learn Rust, you’ll find that you’d choose it over C/++ even without the brrow checker. Every little part of the development experience is just so much better.

            • bluGill@fedia.io
              2·
              2 days ago

              Maybe. I have millions of lines of c++ and making rust work with them will often be more work than just implementing the feature in c++