Hi Alberto,

I didn’t make the original choice, but Rust provides all sorts of safety 
mechanisms which take a while to learn and adapt to, but once you do, code you 
write generally behaves exactly how you expected, with little possibility of 
hard-to-trace pointer/memory allocation/buffer overflow/casting/whathaveyou 
issues that are a feature of every C/C+ project. It also means a lot less time 
debugging, testing for odd memory cases, and chasing down the obscure issues 
that will inevitably occur in the field. Yes you can set up all sorts of 
conventions in a C project to protect against this, but with Rust, you 
generally don’t have to.

As for the language choice being a ‘barrier,’ if it keeps out the type of 
"engineer" who can’t/won’t trouble themselves to learn a new language, then I’m 
happy it's in place. Sorry for sounding a bit harsh, but I can’t find a way to 
express that sentiment more delicately.

YP


> On 13 Oct 2017, at 11:15, Alberto Garcia <agarciaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm very interested in your project since it solves very important problems 
> in current cryptocurrencies out there. 
> 
> I would like to collaborate and help you with the coding but I realized that 
> the language used is Rust and not something more "standard" as C/C++. Was 
> reading about Rust and saw that it's similar than C++ but designed for better 
> memory safety. 
> 
> Just wondering why are you using Rust since I think it creates a barrier for 
> a lot of developers interested in the project but not familiarized with 
> something like Rust.
> 
> Actually, this article explains very well what I want to say with the 
> language election: 
> https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/ <https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0324/>
> 
> Anyway thank you very much for the time you all put in this project.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
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