• 0x0@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    Ah yes, the rust zealots shitting on one of the most important languages of all time… again.

    Kinda weird how the number one way to promote Rust has been to downplay C and others.

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      How exactly do you promote anything without saying “it’s better than the competition” in some way?

      What else can you say about a programming language? There’s literally not a single point where a feature is not a comparison to the rest of the languages. There’s exactly one actual barrier: turing completeness. And that bar is so low, even Excel gets over it.

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      7 months ago

      I really didnt put all that thought into it when I posted this (certainly wasn’t looking to evangelize Rust). It was mildly amusing (memory safety came to mind) and I needed a title somewhat related to the meme was really all there was to it.

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      7 months ago

      I believe, this post is primarily shitting on C and only mentioning Rust at the side.

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      The specifics of C’s design could barely be less important. In the 70s it was one of countless ALGOL derivatives churned out on-demand to support R&D projects like Unix.

      Unix succeeded, but it could have been written in any of these languages. The C design process was governed by the difficulty of compiler implementation; everyone was copying ALGOL 68 but some of the features took too long to implement. If Dennis Ritchie had an extra free weekend in 1972, C might have a module system. But he didn’t, so it doesn’t.

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      That’s because Rust solves lots of issues caused by C, of course they are going to twist that knife and use it as a selling points. Humour is not bad, I’ve done lots of C and C++ and am not bothered a bit by it.

      It doesn’t reduce the importance of the language at all, just sheds some light on safer languages, Rust or not.

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      7 months ago

      Honestly, as a Rust Zealot, I’m much more excited about Zig as a C killer than Rust.

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      Word, Rust shills are the most annoying and shitting of the programming language zealots I’ve seen since the Java Enterprise shilling of the early 200xs. WHat’s worse, their memes aren’t even good, unlike the JS memes.