Rust Programming

8160 readers

1 users here now

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Microsoft said: "We are forming a new team focused on enabling the adoption of the Rust programming language as the foundation to modernizing global scale platform services, and beyond"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's kinda serious, but definitely also a meme. Basically, Rust is the safest mainstream language out there (unlike languages like C or C++, which are full of foot guns, or things like JavaScript or Python, which aren't even strongly typed), so there's a strong desire to rewrite things in just because you often don't encounter stupid bugs in Rust code - the compiler won't let you write it. There are safer languages out there, but they're highly impractical for general purposes and are used for insanely mission critical shit (e.g. pacemakers).

I'd give this a quick watch: https://youtu.be/voRBS0r4EyI

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I want to scream, “try Purescript” when I watch this video. This guy clearly loves Haskell but doesn’t seem aware of Purescript.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/voRBS0r4EyI

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.