Rust lacunae [LWN.net]

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 11, 2021 10:13 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Rust lacunae by ncm
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

> But it is not the only, and often enough not the wisest choice.

Sadly today they are precisely one language suitable for writing safe low-level code. Well… one and half, essentially: Rust and “GCC's C with set of flags Linus insisted on being added to GCC”. C++ is flat-out unsuitable.

And as you readily admit Rust is the best of these.

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Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 13:50 UTC (Sat) by BirAdam (guest, #132170) [Link] (1 responses)

One?

Did everyone suddenly forget about Ada and it’s sinking Spark? These two have been in use in mission critical work for decades.

Ada for the win

Posted Jun 21, 2021 22:04 UTC (Mon) by rc_rocks (guest, #152877) [Link]

Indeed. I think that Ada would be an excellent choice for a safer more reliable set of utilities.

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 22:52 UTC (Sat) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (1 responses)

You are the first simultaneous Rust promoter and C apologist I have encountered. You might be all alone in the world.

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 23:22 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Why? C is a de-facto systems language (duh), and Rust is the only modern-ish alternative. I believe that C++ can be used as well, but it has way too many drawbacks to justify rewrite of low-level systems in C++.