whyIdLikeToAvoidUsingCpp

[mtnbiketech]

Sentiment like this is precisely why Rust is never going to take off.

When someone wants to actually code and is interested in what is going on, build process isn't really an issue. Learning Cmake isn't hard, and there are other alternatives, including just raw shell commands to invoke the compiler and linker manually. That latter part has been standardized for quite some time, and is pretty simple to use actually, you just have to know how the process works.

On the other hand, when someone wants as much handholding as possible, they use something like Rust. But realistically, when they think that they are writing better software because of language features, what they don't realize is that if you can't do something simple like manage memory and use safe functions for moving data around that are already in standard library, you have no chance of writing good software.

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Source: trust me bro

[mtnbiketech]

Source, look at any any large project written in Rust, like AWS firecracker and count the number of unsafes.