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Could someone fill me in on the Rust situation?
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Right, I see what you mean. That's just a weird perspective to have. I know right now Kdenlive is pretty much the only FLOSS video editor, but if there were other comparable ones, imagine if I tore you to pieces over your choice to use the other one? For no reason? Damn.
Yeah! Exactly.
(There are plenty of other video editors, by the way! We've only used Kdenlive, but have heard of Shotcut and... Open..something-or-other? But yeah, there's more.)
The Rust people often push the idea that "Rust is the only memory-safe language" (or at least imply it, "all projects should be written in Rust for memory safety!"), completely ignoring that like... MOST languages are memory-safe these days. Yeah, that doesn't apply as much in the low-level space C sits in, and C is the opposite of a memory-safe language (it's basically "memory is just a bunch of bytes, do whatever you want, just be careful"), but still.
(C does have advantages, though. It's been around forever, the way C programs are built is kinda foundational to how programs are built in general on Unix, and basically every language that has cross-language interoperability does it with C, so libraries in C can work with nearly everything. It's also relatively simple to implement (compared to other languages), which is great if you're writing a compiler for fun or for a new architecture. I kinda like C! Absolutely abysmal string handling though. But for that there's Perl. Which, is memory-safe. :3)
-- Frost