Rust feels like a better C++ with modern tooling. I am a tool that works for it.
This isn't to say it's better or worse than zig. If you're developing software and zig works for your needs, go for it. I'd like to see it used on a 100+ person project to see how it might hold up to the problems that I tend to see in c++, which largely arise for people not knowing about constraints that are not tracked explicitly by the compiler. On projects with less people, this doesn't happen as often.
People keep saying that, but I've also seen many who've used Rust for years, in big projects, say the opposite: it gets slightly better as you learn to oblige the borrow checker instictively, but it remains always a kind of annoyance and a friction.
Rust’s main point is memory safety which is why it’s also a preferred language to reengineer cryptography libraries.
I’m interested in the embedded space (along with AI applications) and believe rust will be a language of choice for the entire toolchain here.
So I’m definitely interested in what gaps you see.
Take a look at the Adacore site, especially the free books (PDF):
Ada for the Embedded C Developer
Embedded Spark & Ada Use Cases
This is certainly a very controversial opinion. The two languages should not really be compared or grouped together, not for at least the last 15 years, but probably much longer. Modern C++ features have been developed specifically to address all sorts of things that most C++ developers want fixed from the "C" part of the language's history.
In what way?
Typescript is really just an optional type system for javascript. I don't see the analogy with C/C++.
Is it? Or is it a tool that won't bug you when you make a mistake?
Programmers tend to, as Djikstra noted[1] confuse ease of programming with allowing unforced errors.
I don't want tools to bug me EVER. This includes when I make a mistake.
When I want a tool's opinion, I'll ask for it - through a linter, a static analysis tool, etc.
>Programmers tend to, as Djikstra noted[1] confuse ease of programming with allowing unforced errors
And how long had Djikstra worked as a professional programmer?
If that is your true wish, may I recommend JavaScript? It's a language famous for not complaining about errors.
Or WASM/ASM if you want something closer to the metal.
I personally, want the undefined behaviour Chernobyl to beep before it melts.
> And how long had Djikstra worked as a professional programmer?
According to his wiki if you disregard his tenure at University of Austin, between years 1952 to 1984. So around 32 years.
He's literally first Dutch programmer. Yes. He was a programmer before it was a recognised job.
