[Klonoar]

Fun isn't the point, and it's not (necessarily) a dig. I drive a manual transmission car as my daily driver. I enjoy it. I would never try to say it's better than a modern automatic, though - because that would be wholly incorrect at this point by any objective measure.

I'm noting that C++ vs Rust is basically this: every article that someone writes which goes over "we're still choosing C++" has the same vibe as people who choose manual transmissions in 2025. There's no real reason to do so at this point, other than if you want to.

[cmrdporcupine]

Nah there are plenty of embedded contexts where you're only going to have an SDK for C/C++.

I worked on one recently.

[Klonoar]

These will be slowly eaten by Rust, but sure, we can agree that there might be a small carve-out for that sector of software. It's not a hill I'm willing to die on.