On Saturday, 4 January 2014 at 11:36:20 UTC, bearophile wrote:
NoUseForAName:
http://rust-class.org/pages/using-rust-for-an-undergraduate-os-course.html
Why aren't they using Ada? It has a really refined and safe
parallelism, it's quite safe, it teaches a student the correct
ways of dealing with pointers, memory etc in a low-level
setting. It's usable for hard-realtime. And it's way more
commonly used than Rust. There are books on Ada. Its compilers
are solid, and while Ada is being updated significantly (the
latest is Ada2012) there's no risk in having important parts of
the language become backward incompatible in the short term.
Ada code is not sexy, but this is not a significant problem for
an advanced course lasting few months. Ada is a complex
language, but it's the right kind of complexity, it's not
special cases piled on special cases, it's features piled on
features to deal correctly with different needs (just like in
D, despite D is less designed for correctness compared to Ada).
Bye,
bearophile
Ada is not hype enough, so it doesn't qualify. J/K (no
death-threats please), I gave rust a try, i couldn't get it to
run on my OS.
