Why not Rust?
I don't talk about the Jow Forums side of things, but rather about the language itself. Why not?
Why not Rust?
Aiden Parker
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Brayden Thompson
How about: The compiler is not faster than clang, yet.
Ayden Cooper
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Michael Harris
Dynamic linking & loading isn't a thing, yet, I guess.
Thomas Cox
It has literally nothing to offer. You might as well be using C++.
>inb4 safety
Correctness is the responsibility of the programmer, not the compiler. Good programmers are just as productive in languages without type checking, like Forth.
Eli Clark
all variables should be global and untyped, because "safety" and "encapsulation" is for plebians
Wyatt Jenkins
This. Ideally everything is a giant bitfield accessed by an index.
Henry Edwards
Ayden Rivera
>moving the goal posts
There are plenty of arguments against rust but don't you think it's time rustfags start having arguments on why rust is better?
And I don't mean meme arguments like
>rewrite it in rust
>rust magically solves memory leaks
>why not rust though?
It's time to stop believing the rustfags, the burden of proof on why you should use rust is on them and their silence is deafening
Caleb Peterson
same reason as why not Java or Python
try it out for yourself