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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

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611 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 06 May 25 17:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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kasajian ◴[06 May 25 19:33 UTC] No.43908799[source]▶
This seems a big silly. This is not a language issue. You can have a C++ library that does exactly all the things being shown here so that the application developer doesn't worry about. There would no C++ language features missing that would accomplish what you're able to do on the Rust side.

So is this really a language comparison, or what libraries are available for each language platform? If the latter, that's fine. But let's be clear about what the issue is. It's not the language, it's what libraries are included out of the box.

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1. LinXitoW ◴[06 May 25 21:21 UTC] No.43909794[source]▶
Sure, you can emulate some of the features and hope that everyone using your library is doing it "right". Just like you could just use a dynamic language, tag every variable with a type, and hope everyone using your library does the MANUAL work of always doing it correct. Guess we don't need types either.

And while we're at it, why not use assembly? It's all just "syntactic sugar" over bits, doesn't make any difference, right?