Linus Torvalds Speaks on the the divide between Rust and C Linux developers an the future Linux. Will things like fragmentation among the open source communi...
  • λλλ@programming.dev
    14·
    1 month ago

    Do you have something against it? People hate on it like it’s a fad or whatever. But, the people who like it, LOVE it.

    Rust is the most admired language, more than 80% of developers that use it want to use it again next year.

    https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#overview

    Rust is on its seventh year as the most loved language with 87% of developers saying they want to continue using it.

    https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#overview

    8 years in a row. I can understand the perspective of someone who spent years honing their craft in C/C++ and not wanting to learn a new language. But, the Harassment of the “Rust in Linux Lead” is ridiculous. I’m not saying you are harassing. But, saying it’s a tech bro thing is just negative and doesn’t do justice to how many devs just like rust.

    • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      1 month ago

      I only have something against the syntax, but nothing against anything else about it, nor is my comment meant as a negative against the language. What I referred to was simply about how that stupid sentence is not a good comment and completely personal opinion. I am sure a lot of programming languages would have gotten the same label at one point in time. And many times they have been superseded by the next big thing.

      • λλλ@programming.dev
        1·
        1 month ago

        Fair enough. Personally, I am a developer who only has worked professionally in C#. C/C++ scare me. I would get used to it if I were to use it professionally. on the other hand, I picked up rust as a hobby language for some low level stuff because I love the guardrails the compiler provides. I think rust would help make me a better C programmer TBH.

        • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          C isn’t too hard if you learn about how memory and pointers work, which seems to be something Rust tries to get away from. So I’m not sure it would make you a better C programmer.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
      3·
      1 month ago

      If anything I think that the current rust discourse is a fad. I’m not sure what it is about rust that makes people have so strong opinions about it but I can’t wait for it to become a “normal” language so that people can chill about it a bit.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      2·
      1 month ago

      It’s also possible the number of people who like it do not outnumber the people who don’t like it

      • λλλ@programming.dev
        21·
        1 month ago

        Its also possible that out of the people who hate on it, the people who haven’t actually tried it outnumber the ones who have.