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Why is Rust being an overused programming language today? (fedia.io)

submitted 18 hours ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Even through it has some flaws, e.g. it's not fully memory safe (there are some programming languages that are even safer, like Ada)?

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[–] WilloftheWest@feddit.uk 31 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

According to who?

[–] ryujin470@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Just in my opinion. It's probably a trending programming language right now. More loved than C or C++ by some developers

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 28 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a hyped language because it solves many problems that has persisted with C and C++ - without having to rely on garbage collection.

If anything, it’s underused. Not that I believe everything should be rewritten in Rust. That’s just stupid.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 15 hours ago

As a C++ developer Rust's borrow checker is very interesting - it promises to solve my issues with C++ without the issues that make other languages (ie Java, Python...) have in the real world. (remember we choose C++ for a reason, Java isn't correct for our application - if Java is correct you should use that instead)

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 37 points 17 hours ago

You’re upset that new technology is displacing a 50 year old technology with a ton of well known flaws?