Speculative: Rust for base system components

Rozhuk Ivan rozhuk.im at gmail.com
Mon Dec 31 19:26:52 UTC 2018


On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 12:58:51 -0500
Eric McCorkle <eric at metricspace.net> wrote:

> I would debate the kitchen sink claim.  For one, Rust benefits from a
> solid understanding of type systems that didn't exist when C++ was
> created.  Proper parameterized types are a significant improvement
> over C++ templates (the same holds for Java's generics, but that's
> tangential).  This alone reduces the complexity of the language (and
> its error messages) considerably.  While I give C++ slack on the
> issue of templates because Somebody Had To Go First, that doesn't
> mean I relish the idea of writing C++ code.
> 

Who cares!?
Who will support all this staff?

I want that programs works, I do not care types, classes and other things.
Now most things works, so why we should waste time to rewrite it to more difficult to understand and support languages?


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