On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 at 06:27, Siraaj Khandkar <sir...@khandkar.net> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2019, at 20:18, Anselm Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > C89 (or C99) clearly remains the preferred language for suckless > > software. However, when forced into typical day job developments to > > fund your well being, golang might actually be the sanest option on > > the table -- in order to avoid worse options such as Rust, Java, > > Kotlin, Scala, Ruby, C#, Swift etc. > > What are your concerns about Rust?
The language itself is certainly better than C++ or Java and avoided many mistakes (like exceptions and going to far with OO). On the other hand the typesystem isn't great and much more complex than golang's approach. Also I dislike the distinction of raw pointers (unsafe) and various types of references. Besides this it's the hipster environment of Rust that is putting me off. In contrast - even if golang suffers the same to some degree and is heavily sponsored by Google, the main ideas that resulted into Go are clearly footprints of Bell Labs. In Rust I do miss this influence -- there seems more influence in Rust from the 'functional' programming folks - which have also worsened Java dramatically since the Java 6 days (lambdas, weird container/collection programming paradigms etc.). When looking at Rusts' experiemtal features such as future, intrinsics etc. I have the feeling that adopting it might lead to a big regret in the mid term, which is why I would stay away ;) Best regards, Anselm
