[darfs]

Am i the only one, who get slowly angry about that "Use $language but Not this One"-comments? I don't see much value in such comments, srsly.

Why don't accept the fact someone decided to write $it, and move on with usefull comments? Enough hn this today.

[davb]

Yes, I had a similar thought.

The top two comment chains right now are (to paraphrase) "See, modern C++ isn't free of memory issues" and "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare".

[burntsushi]

> "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare"

That already happened, almost three years ago.

It's an interesting comparison point. The OP contains memory corruption bugs in C++'s standard regex library. If Rust claims to prevent these kinds of bugs, does it actually hold up to scrutiny? One way of testing that is throwing a fuzzer against a regex library written in Rust.

[blub]

Boost is not the "C++ standard regex library", it's one of the best known C++ libraries.

[Retra]

What comment would you think is useful, and why not make that one instead?