I see it's time for our regularly scheduled Rust is hard/inconvenient/slow rant on HN. Someone light the Rust Evangelism Strike Force signal
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Replying to @johnregehr @stephentyrone
maybe the most HN sentence there ispic.twitter.com/nlfa0Giucl
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And right on cue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14917378 … (h/t
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Highlight: "Yes, C++. It's the only practical, safe alternative to C."
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Replying to @stephentyrone @Symbo1ics and
Also: "Assembly doesn't has UB, making it ironic that it is safer to write straight Assembly at the expense of portability than C"
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Replying to @stephentyrone @Symbo1ics and
"Assembly doesn't have UB" -- Certainly not the case for x86 and ARM..
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Replying to @oe1cxw @stephentyrone and
There was some UB in the floatingpoint part of the RISC-V spec, but I think that has been fixed in the latest revision of the spec.
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Replying to @oe1cxw @Symbo1ics and
You had UB ... in the floating point part? That's literally the last place I would expect to find it. There's only a couple things left \
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