On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Max Reitz wrote: > The issues of using C are well understood and nobody likes it. Let's use > a better language. C++ is not a better language, Rust is. Everybody > loves Rust. Rust is good. Rust is hip. It will attract developers, it > will improve code quality, it will improve performance, it will even > improve your marriage. Rust is the future and the future is now. > > As the block layer, let's show our commitment to the future by replacing > one of our core parts, the the LEGACY (Bah! Yuck! Ugh!) qcow2 driver, by > a shiny (Oooh! Aaah!) Rust driver. Much better. My VMs now run thrice as > fast. Promise.
This is actually a good exercise. Did you feel like there were places where Rust allowed you to express things better than C? I like pattern matching, wish C had it. Stefan
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