ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agoIt's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slurlemmy.worldimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down16
arrow-up1100arrow-down1imageIt's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slurlemmy.worldZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 months agoHmm. So I guess it comes down to what OP is doing. They either want to write a Rust library, or something that uses a Rust library that may not be standardised or even exist yet. If the latter, they should stick with C.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoWriting C bindings to a Rust library is the easier scenario because you can rely on the safe code having nice and clean memory semantics.
Hmm. So I guess it comes down to what OP is doing. They either want to write a Rust library, or something that uses a Rust library that may not be standardised or even exist yet. If the latter, they should stick with C.
Writing C bindings to a Rust library is the easier scenario because you can rely on the safe code having nice and clean memory semantics.