Comment by oscargrouch | Hacker News Reader

Comment by oscargrouch | Hacker News Reader

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This whole "written in Rust" as if it was a feature BS must stop someday.

Get the project 'A' features and compare with project 'B' features, the strength and weakness of programming languages will be apparent, on the features, runtime speed, bugs, etc..

Choosing a project over another just because its in a given language is not based on logical reasoning, but emotional reasoning and therefore the bad paths will get evident with time (Except of course if the language is really unsuitable to the domain, which is not the case here whether with C or Rust).

This emotional bias for me is a reason to actually look at Rust projects with suspicious if people working on it know its just another tool with some given properties and not some magical wand that will turn everything into unicorns and rainbows.

Note: this is also targeted at "why you would want to choose C over others ?" comment bellow in the same line

> This whole "written in Rust" as if it was a feature BS must stop someday.

I hope you can notice the hypocrisy when the title of this post has "written in <language>" in it but you have no qualm with it. The comment you are responding to didn't imply anything, it could have mentioned any language, try to read with a more open mind

It will take a few years. We just got over the "written in Go" era.

afaik one of the reasons it is considered a feature is memory safety. i agree a better selling point would be to say "written in a memory safe language".

Rust is a langauge which exists because colleges want to churn out programmers who do have not spent the requitisre 4 years required to learn C. I really think we need some sort of licensing for programming...

Colleges should not be churning out "programmers" with skills in one language. Trade schools would be better for that.

In college I learned theory and algorithms, and was exposed to half a dozen programming languages at least. I mastered none of them, that wasn't the point.

yeah, and that license should be revoked if you decide to use a memory unsafe language for code exposed to untrusted input

Didn't you hear? It's only programming if you use assembly.

Use of a memory safe or high level language results in immediate revocation of the Programmer Card™.

Are you implying that Rust takes less time to "learn" (whatever that means) than C? Have you seen Rust?

I think it's commonly accepted that it takes less time to write memory-safe code in Rust than in C. It's also commonly accepted that for stuff where you can leverage a lots of libraries and mostly write glue code, Rust is faster than C. It's up to you to evaluate if those are your goals or not.

Rust does take less time to learn than C.

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