Biden administration seems oblivious of the strengths of contemporary C++ and the efforts to provide strong safety guarantees, Bjarne Stroustrup said.

Python is memory safe? Can’t you access/address memory with C bindings?

  • Traister101@lemmy.today
    2·
    8 months ago

    I’d probably say it depends but I’m no Rust expert and I have no direct experience with C (though quite familiar with C++).

    Basically I’d expect writing C to be easy, but not safe. IE you can quickly and easily write C that compiles but has runtime issues. Rust for the most part will catch everything but logic issues during/before compilation meaning once the program runs you’ll have very high confidence in it’s runtime behavior leading to time spent “fighting the compiler” instead of figuring out wtf is going wrong at runtime.

    • Traister101@lemmy.today
      31·
      8 months ago

      I think primarily I don’t really care to argue about if it’s harder to write or not since it doesn’t really matter. I think the pros Rust provides are worth all it’s cons

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      IE you can quickly and easily write C that compiles but has runtime issues.

      So what’s “easy” about it then? Just getting something to compile? That’s not a very good measure of “easyness”.