On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017, at 09:02 AM, Colin Walters wrote: >> >> mind and not just focus on the programming language. > > That said since we're talking about that too, I would > be interested in exploring Rust for some of this too. > Modern C++ has a lot of nice things, but it still doesn't > give you reliable memory safety, and that matters a lot > when we're parsing XML, doing HTTP, etc. as we are today. > Using Rust has a *lot* of implications, even more than C++, > and I struggle with the tradeoffs a bit because we've just built > so much up in the C side. But OTOH, again for a lot of this > problem domain, the advantages are quite nice.
As much as I like Rust, it's hampered more by LLVM than anything else. I struggle to see the advantage of writing in Rust. Not to mention that the learning curve is quite high compared to other languages. I'd be more likely to suggest D than Rust. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Rpm-ecosystem mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-ecosystem
