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posted by janrinok on Monday January 16 2017, @08:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the comparing-tools dept.

Eric S Raymond, author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", blogs via Ibiblio

I wanted to like Rust. I really did. I've been investigating it for months, from the outside, as a C replacement with stronger correctness guarantees that we could use for NTPsec [a hardened implementation of Network Time Protocol].

[...] I was evaluating it in contrast with Go, which I learned in order to evaluate as a C replacement a couple of weeks back.

[...] In practice, I found Rust painful to the point of unusability. The learning curve was far worse than I expected; it took me those four days of struggling with inadequate documentation to write 67 lines of wrapper code for [a simple IRC] server.

Even things that should be dirt-simple, like string concatenation, are unreasonably difficult. The language demands a huge amount of fussy, obscure ritual before you can get anything done.

The contrast with Go is extreme. By four days in of exploring Go, I had mastered most of the language, had a working program and tests, and was adding features to taste.

Have you tried using Rust, Go or any other language that might replace C in the future? What are your experiences?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @10:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @10:42PM (#454575)

    Referencing a book from 50 years ago? How old of you.

    No, we don't kill people over 30. We don't celebrate them. We ignore them. We exclude them from society. Presumably they kill themselves or starve to death or something. Life doesn't exist after 30.

  • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:21AM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Tuesday January 17 2017, @06:21AM (#454764)

    Pedantry mode: Actually he's referencing a film. In the book, the Lastday comes when people reach 21. Take that young programmers!

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