Would using Rust have prevented this?
In this case a small minority of requests were getting truncated responses.
No one said Rust software is bug free. If someone thinks that they’ve been seriously misled.
Brooks was expecting such "Silver Bullet" improvements as often as every few decades, we're arguably overdue significantly. He cites Ada as an example of where such an improvement might come from, well, Rust isn't Ada but a lot of the same ideas about correctness are present.
Google reports order of magnitude changes from their Rust work for example.
Not really. If anything I'm pretty sure Fred would compare it to Ada:
> Nevertheless, Ada will not prove to be the silver bullet that slays the software productivity monster, It is, after all, just another high-level language, and the biggest payoff from such languages came from the first transition, up from the accidental complexities of the machine into the more abstract statement of step-by-step solutions.
Google reports 4x fewer (and still falling) rollbacks for Rust versus C++ in their Android development for example. That's not 10x but it's pretty sizeable.
Naturally there are several ideological questions between that approach from the anti GC crowd, and adopting Rust instead.
Not that breaks the C++ vs Rust from your comment, though.
Folks that wonder pre-history tech with amazement and lack of understanding of how it used to work in first place.
The Red Black tree, C++ std::map is a classic example. It has these very attractive theoretical properties, but then you try one for real in C++ and oh, why is this so slow and so RAM hungry? Well yeah, those are only real world problems, the big-O numbers don't care about that.
Ironically there are C# implementations that perform better, exactly because they were developed without WG21 working environment, in a compiled managed language.
For all the performance minded talk, the walk doesn't always follow.
Also std::map cannot be improved by existing processes.
It doesn't take much for one memory inefficient dep to drag down the entire app.
Did you read the article, or are you a "use rust" parrot / bot based on titles?