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by octoberfranklin
1651 days ago
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This is another screed by someone who thinks Rust's success is due to marketing or branding or devs who throw great parties. Rust is the first memory-safe language without a garbage collector [*]. That is why it is a big deal. Those are table stakes now. Everything else is just styling and bonus points. As for the article title: what killed Haskell was deviously unpredictable performance from large-scale programs. Haskell performance analysis is intractable for big programs. Rust's "just say no to GC" is about as diametrically opposed to that as you can possibly get. [*] aside from research prototypes -- much respect to MLKit and Cyclone: https://elsman.com/mlkit/pdf/mlkit-4.3.0.pdf |
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