The amount of effort Rust programmers have put into reimplementing every thing is nothing short of astonishing. Some call it progress. I personally call it reinventing the wheel.
@Elizafox C/C++ are fine, aren’t they? I don’t understand why people love Rust so much.
Is it really that much nicer?
@slightlyflightyone "SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY!!!"
Of course, people under the age of 25 don't usually seem to understand memory safety in a programming language is not only not new, it's not even novel. Nor is an automatically garbage-collected (via refcounting) memory safe language.
Lisp has been doing it since 1959.
@Elizafox @slightlyflightyone You're missing the point of Rust, which is memory safety enforced by the compiler as a statically type checked attribute of the program. It allows you to write very low level code without the overhead of a GC runtime.
The idea of memory "ownership" and who has the ability to point to a buffer has always been an informal part of programming (is baked into AmigaOS's messaging API), but it's never been a formal detail before.
All of what @vertigo said, but also: 90% of the time there's no need to rewrite existing programs into new languages.
@Elizafox @slightlyflightyone
