• LimaJ@techhub.social
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    @rumba @Croquette They’re is a lot of people scrambling to rewrite existing c projects in rust for what?
    for example ffmpegs rust rewrite is slower than the c version we need more maintainers rather than creating new rust alternatives that have no purpose

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      If you want to ignore re-making things out of memory-safe technology as an advancement, we don’t really have anything to talk about here.

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        @rumba making new projects in rust sure cool but when big projects that most of the world relies on etc ffmpeg crucially need maintainers and contributions rust isnt needed and is a waste of resources when C can do it better, faster and easier rust is a fast fade that will likely remain in the shadow of C. Tbh your glazing rust without looking at both sides of the argument so the picture op posted really is true

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          Ahem…

          If you want to ignore re-making things out of memory-safe technology as an advancement, we don’t really have anything to talk about here.

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      I know Rust superficially. I use it to create simple tests for my embedded projects, so mostly just serial terminal with keyboard inputs.

      It works a lot better for me than python because Rust is a lot closer to C than python.

      So I cannot comment on Rust shortcomings. I was interested in knowing for what kind of projects Rust wasn’t good.