Subj : Re: macOS 26
To   : tenser
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Dec 03 2025 11:13:30

  Re: Re: macOS 26
  By: tenser to Nightfox on Thu Dec 04 2025 07:20 am

 te> Rust is, frankly, a better language than either C or C++, but with good
 te> reason: it had 35 years of C and 30 years of C++ history to learn from
 te> when it was designed.  Plus it could also draw on lessons learned from
 te> research in the wider PL community over those decades.  But it's easy to
 te> do better when you've got so much data you can learn from.

I don't doubt Rust is a good language.  I have yet to try it myself; that's mainly because I haven't worked on a project that uses Rust, and I haven't really looked into using it for one of my own projects.

At the same time, sometimes I'm not sure about a programming language forcing certain rules & paradigms, etc..  C and C++ let you do pretty much anything, and IMO that's not necessarily a bad thing.  Just be careful not to do stuff that will cause bugs. :)  I know, there's always human error, and everyone will eventually make mistakes, so I suppose it's good if the language can help avoid that.  Sometimes I'm torn between that and the adage that "it's a poor craftsman who blames his tools".  There's the old joke that a person goes to see a doctor and says, "My arm hurts when I move it like this," and the doctor says, "Then don't move it like that."

 te> These conspiracy-theories about control, evangelism, attacks on software
 te> freedom, etc, are just uninformed nonsense.

Honestly this thread is the first time I've heard about any conspiracy theories about control on software freedom due to evangelism of a programming langauge..

Nightfox
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