[ekidd]

I've spent the last few days aggressively parallelizing some Rust code with crossbeam, and it's really just... painless (once you're used to Rust). Rust actually understands data races, and it grumbles at me until my code is provably safe, and then everything Just Works.

The Rayon library is also lovely for data parallelism.

Sometimes, I think, "Rust is basically a nicer C++ with the obvious foot guns removed and great tooling", but then there are those moments where I'm just blown away by what a good job it does.

(I think it helps that I have some functional programming experience under my belt, and that I tend to use mutability sparingly, and mostly in very simple ways.)

[StavrosK]

> painless (once you're used to Rust)

This needs to be Rust's motto or something.

[kbenson]

Rust: Front-loading the pain so the rest is relatively easy. Just like High School. ;)

[naasking]

> This needs to be Rust's motto or something.

Rust: climb that mountain so you can see further.

[forgot-my-pw]

Rust: it's relatively easy when you're an expert!

[StavrosK]

Rust: Expected String, got str.

[Buttons840]

painless (after some amount of pain)

[duneroadrunner]

> basically a nicer C++ with the obvious foot guns removed

For those stuck with C++, you're not out of luck in terms of safe and easy sharing between threads. The SaferCPlusPlus library provides "access requesters" that provide functionality and (data race) safety similar to Arc<T>.

Unfortunately the documentation[1] is "in transition" at the moment and does not currently refer to the very latest version. But the main difference is that the latest version implements something akin to rust's "sync" trait to help prevent you from attempting to share inappropriate data types.

Again, documentation is a work in progress, but if you're interested you can check out an example that demonstrates an array being safely modified simultaneously from multiple threads[2].

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#asynchronou...

[2] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus/blob/7e3574...

[pimeys]

I needed to search for the crossbeam library you mentioned, and their version of `Atomic` is just what I need in one of my libraries. Thank you for that. I need to dig deeper what other useful tools it contains.