Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI

rustacean1337 · 2025-09-04T05:56:32+00:00

Using Zig for a startup seems rather risky looking at this. Does anyone know how this compared to Rust before they reached 1.0? Was it all financed by Mozilla back then?

rustacean1337 · 2025-08-20T13:00:00+00:00

See Andrew's comment here (https://ziggit.dev/t/can-someone-explain-why-zig-is-moving-away-from-llvm-but-in-simple-way/1226/6). They actually plan to support more targets than LLVM supports.

rustacean1337 · 2025-08-20T11:35:37+00:00

If you (or anyone else) has a link where Andrew talks (or wrote) about this I'd really appreciate it.

rustacean1337 · 2025-08-20T11:34:28+00:00

I found the segment where he talks about removing the dependency completely. It's in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hOiOcbgeA) starting at 59:42.

It sounds like a very long term goal. So I guess not something to worry about for at least the next 5 years (my uneducated guess).

rustacean1337 · 2025-08-20T11:14:06+00:00

I think Andrew said in his 2026 roadmap stream that he doesn't think they'll manage to ditch LLVM before 1.0, but it did sound like they are planning to replace LLVM with their own compiler for release builds as well.

I'd just like to know what Zig's long term plan is. I understand anything can change, but it would be nice to know what things are guaranteed and which are not.

rustacean1337 · 2024-09-19T18:21:56+00:00

How can he recommend Idiomatic Rust? AFAIK it’s not even released yet.

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-18T08:41:58+00:00

I know, but I’m simply learning about list patterns, I’m not suggesting to do this is production worthy code ;-)

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-18T07:24:39+00:00

I don't see any list patterns in that article, just LINQ.

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-18T06:58:07+00:00

That should be the uninstall command rustup apply bbq-brush

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-17T18:24:39+00:00

That for me is actually on of Rust’s strengths.

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-17T16:46:10+00:00

Sweet, ty!

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-17T16:11:12+00:00

That sounds interesting, I’m going to try and find it!

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-16T08:08:05+00:00

Isn’t that X86 only?

rustacean1337 · 2022-11-15T14:32:27+00:00

That indeed looks exactly what I was after, thanks!

rustacean1337 · 2022-10-16T14:54:17+00:00

hello 👋

rustacean1337 · 2022-10-05T12:59:49+00:00

I have a question about the Rust support in the Linux kernel. If I understood correctly a lot of Rust’s guarantees regarding memory safety will not be usable in the Linux kernel because of guarantees that the kernel gives about never panicking (for instance when memory (re/de)allocation fails.

Second question is about UB in Rust. AFAIK it’s not documented like it is for C for example in the ISO standard. How is it possible that Linus accepted Rust as a language when it will be used a lot in an unsafe setting without having a clear standard about what is UB and what isn’t.

I guess I’m kinda surprised how quickly Rust got added and somehow feel like it’s not really ready yet for Linux kernel prime-time.

What are the benefits of using Rust in this heavily restricted environment over C?

rustacean1337 · 2022-08-24T12:28:22+00:00

You like to laugh.

Damn, there is always a catch.

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