• Limaj@techhub.social
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    2 days ago

    @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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      2 days ago

      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.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      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.