Why Is Rust Programming Language Becoming So Popular? (www.frolicorg.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by snaggen@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] MakeAvoy@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

High level folks complain it takes too long to code in and is hard to understand the borrow checker. Low level folks complain it takes too long to code in and is hard to understand the borrow checker. Honestly though the borrow checker is a great compromise to idiot proof memory leak prevention, and the C folks can just throw in unsafe when they want start slinging pointers and manual heap management. The macro system alone is so good I don't think it's fair to appraise the language until you've written a dozen macros

[-] hairyballs@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd argue the macros are quite bad:

Declarative macros are hard to read, same level as regex
Procedural macros require to write a new crate with a ton of boilerplate, sometimes for stuff conceptually really simple (like hash is: apply the same function to every field, then compose the results)

I agree, though, that it's better there're here than nothing. It's just that there is to be a better solution.

load more comments (1 replies)

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023

38 points (91.3% liked)