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Zed on Linux is out!
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Quoting the guy:
"that rewriting those in Rust will take an eternity, so not sure what is actionable here, hence closing."
That's Rust shining from all its glories here gentlemen...
The best language, if there is nothing changing.
That's a thing to make a web server or a library that displays Fibonacci, that's something else when there are humans with changing scopes...
Its not Rusts fault, the devs are simply lazy and making insecure products, as they dont want to rewrite everything.
That's what I am saying.
To quote you: "they don't want to rewrite everything" ...
Writing Rust often implies major refactoring and it takes so much time to write that your requests go: "pewf" closed due to the amount of effort it takes.
Anyway, been there, done that! Zig is probably the real future; it's a joy to write, it compiles fast, clear to read, and safe.
It has shared libraries and a proper integration with existing C/CPP code base.
You should try it, that's an amazing language with a real potential to replace the legacy.
I dunno man... I'm not sure I'm so keen on a language that prides itself on not having macros
Comptime replaces macros/reflection.
It's basically Zig code that runs at compile time in your code...
No other "weird" language to learn; it's zig all the way. What you would have written in macro is written in zig comptime.
Even the build system is zig...
Same for generics, it's comptime...
I use rust only if we need performance, for small services. The industry does the same. People use node for backend but e.g. redis is in rust. It's a good tool if you use it for the right stuff.
EDIT: redis is not in rust, but e.g. aws writes many services in rust
Wtf are you talking about? Redis is in C....
yeah I'm a fucking idiot because I thought wrongly the redis' language...
You're not an idiot, you just misremembered. It happens