Anyone claiming they can write memory safe / defined C code at scale either has no experience with it or has their head buried in the sand.
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Replying to @fugueish @RichFelker
It only has to be less bad than C or C++ though and it's hard to argue that it makes things worse in any major way.
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It definitely has an ugly syntax and it could have shed more complexity pre-stable but it's Good Enough already.
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+ most software doesn't need Rust. It just needs to move to high-level languages. It's using C / C++ for no reason.
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Even for Mozilla's use case, a browser, most code would be fine with GC language with value types, etc. sharing JS GC.
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No, it wouldn’t. Just to name one issue, you’d need thread safe GC. JS GC isn’t, and can’t be for perf.
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