On Oct 28, 2016, at 07:33, Richard Hipp wrote:
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> Perhaps true. But in my brief look at Rust I observed that you really
> cannot use it effectively without also having to use Git. The two
> seem closely linked. Is that incorrect?
It is indeed. Sadly, the examples don't help to dispel that at
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On 10/27/16, David Mason wrote:
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>> However, the value of Rust is not simply memory management. The
>> *considerably* more expressive type system, and the much more robust type
>> checking can reduce LOC while improving both readability an
On 10/27/16, David Mason wrote:
>
> However, the value of Rust is not simply memory management. The
> *considerably* more expressive type system, and the much more robust type
> checking can reduce LOC while improving both readability and safety.
Perhaps true. But in my brief look at Rust I obs
Hi,
Below are answered I give to few people (Richard, etc.) who talk about this
topic.
> « Irony: Isn't Rust heavily dependent upon Git for its package management? So
> if Hg is written in Rust, does that mean that Hg has a dependency on Git? »
Rust is a language, Git is a DVCS.
You can use Rus
Richard and Warren both make very legitimate comments. I wasn't seriously
suggesting that work should stop moving Fossil forward for the perhaps
marginal benefit of conversion to Rust.
However, the value of Rust is not simply memory management. The
*considerably* more expressive type system, and
On Oct 27, 2016, at 5:37 AM, David Mason wrote:
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> Also of interest is that Facebook is doing an implementation of hg in Rust.
Facebook’s market cap is $343.34 billion today. This is relevant because...
> Fossil seems pretty robust in C, but Rust would increase safety confidence.
According
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Richard Hipp wrote:
> On 10/27/16, David Mason wrote:
>> Fossil seems pretty robust in C, but Rust would increase safety confidence.
>
> Many people do believe that just because an application is written in
> Rust rather than in C that it must be "safer". But it
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:37 PM, David Mason wrote:
> I's about 1/3 of the way through this report:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITFlEMk
>
> It seems that they originally preferred GIT (because it was what they knew)
> but now prefer hg, although it's a
On 10/27/16, David Mason wrote:
> Fossil seems pretty robust in C, but Rust would increase safety confidence.
Many people do believe that just because an application is written in
Rust rather than in C that it must be "safer". But it is a logical
fallacy. You should avoid falling into that trap
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