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0 pointszanny11y ago0 comments

My simplification of matters is that while C++ can now do everything right, it still easily lets you do everything wrong.

Rust compels correctness, so for any project where you can't trust your coworkers aptitude towards correctness (and that is to say you even trust your own) Rust is an insane productivity booster. We could have avoided millions of hours of work and thousands of zero day and system destroying bugs if we had OS cores written in a language like Rust.

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ssalazar11y ago

> so for any project where you can't trust your coworkers aptitude towards correctness

So, for any non-trivial project. People will make mistakes, no matter how skilled or experienced they are. Catching these mistakes at compile-time can be a huge gain for security and stability.

Though it remains to be seen is what kind of maintenance/development burden these constraints introduce over the longer term lifecycle of a software project.

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0 pointszanny11y ago0 comments

My simplification of matters is that while C++ can now do everything right, it still easily lets you do everything wrong.

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ssalazar11y ago

> so for any project where you can't trust your coworkers aptitude towards correctness

So, for any non-trivial project. People will make mistakes, no matter how skilled or experienced they are. Catching these mistakes at compile-time can be a huge gain for security and stability.

Though it remains to be seen is what kind of maintenance/development burden these constraints introduce over the longer term lifecycle of a software project.

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