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by Sir_Cmpwn 2612 days ago
>So why not use it?

Because I don't like it, and I do like C. Rust is not the second coming of Christ, it's a programming language and has many shortcomings and tradeoffs.

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Which is fine, everyone has their own taste and every language has its shortcomings, but then why didn't you say that from the beginning? Instead you made up a stupid argument that with wlroots being written in Rust other projects would have had a much harder time to make bindings to other programming languages. Which is of course bullshit since Rust allows you to provide a C ABI, hence creating language bindings is as simple as with C.
>Which is of course bullshit since Rust allows you to provide a C ABI, hence creating language bindings is as simple as with C.

No, because C already uses the C ABI. You have to have a separate interface to your Rust code which uses the C ABI, and an uncomfortable transition point between C-land and Rust-land. This is definitely not as simple as it is with C.

That wasn't your argument. Your argument was that other projects have a much easier time to create language bindings for wlroots if it's written in C and know your argument changed to: I have a much easier time to provide a C ABI if wlroots is written in C instead of Rust.
In my view, tradeoffs of C are objectively much worse overall. I.e. it's not about taste, it's about the language limitations. Tastes are a different matter and they of course can differ.