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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16 2017, @11:39PM
Oh my god, it's true! Runaway is older that ESR!
But only just about the same level of lechery towards twenty something females. Creepy really old men!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:43AM
Guess what pal, that's the natural order. I am in my 40s and would not consider any woman beyond her early 30s to be worth my time. Sexual attraction is for men, women favor providers. This is why old movies pair males in their 50s with girls in their 20s. Suck it!