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by int_19h
2765 days ago
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The way I'd describe Rust is, it's what C++ would have been if it used ML as a source of inspiration rather than Simula, and didn't care about preserving syntactic compatibility. To unpack, this means that it's still a language that is very "close to the metal" in terms of lack of overhead, and broadly follows the don't-pay-for-what-you-don't-use C++ maxim. But at the same time, it's a very high-level language with lambdas and ADTs and destructuring. |
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Had Bjarne not taken that decision and C++ would having drinks with Modula-2, Pascal, Oberon and others.
So it was both a bless and a curse.
Rust seems to be increasingly adopted in spite of being different, so lets see when it gets a nice OS SDK sweet spot.