On Sunday, 21 September 2014 at 02:10:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
Rust looked a lot more exciting when I didn't know much about
it.
I didn't remember ever seeing you excited about Rust :-) In
past you (rightfully) didn't comment much about Rust. But do
you have more defined ideas about it now? Do you still think D
has a chance against Rust?
Bye,
bearophile
It is clear that rust has some serious limitations.
- It interact badly with the existing world (other languages).
- It is slow to compile.
- Constraints too much the dev in some paradigms, which
obviously won't fit all area of programming.
- It bets on many unproven mechanism (ie see error handling).
Some of them may be real hit, but I doubt ALL of them will be,
and these which won't be will have to be worked around, adding
complexity.
- The macro system is plain horrible, and the only way to do
code generation.
Rust has many cool goodies, but it is generally too radical.
