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Analogous question:
If we know how arithmetics works, why don‘t we do calculations with pen and paper? Why do we use electronic calculators?
The reasons are:
It‘s more convenient
It’s faster
It’s much more reliable
Same goes for memory safety. Even if we know how to do it manually, why the fuck would we want to if we have languages and compilers doing it much much better?
I honestly don‘t get why so many devs seemingly struggle to understand this. -
@spongessuck write me safe code
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@retoor everyone
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@Lensflare rust is slower rust is heavier rust is strangling me
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@donkulator that's my point but I wanted to discover new things
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@spongessuck rust is faster. Python is a special case
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@AdamOnAir Try Swift. It’s as elegant and simple as a script language and as performant and secure as Rust.
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Rust is just as fast as C and because you can easily reuse high quality data structures it's often faster in practice
It's also just better in every way imo. Better syntax, better type system, more ergonomic features, support for async, etc. etc.
And all that at the same runtime speed and memory safe by design
But you do you I guess, some people just love C 🤷♂️ -
@Lensflare yea beautiful I just played with it back in 2017 I think, not much but it was good
Me: Let's grab something for dinner!
GF: Sure, but let's go somewhere safe
Me:
A word on languages.
I really like C, did it since I'm 11 at school with some Pascal. Simple language, 32 reserved words (unlike COBOL ahem) and never wanted to change, just discover some new languages, never replace it.
I saw Rust in 2020, and it catched some of my time, like a year. It's not bad, but you feel strangled with rust. In C, I can walk on water, and my programs run in under a second with less than 100mb.
The syntax [Rust] is also hard and ugly.
So C won over Rust.
Then Go, in 2022. Better syntax than Rust, prettier code and it had a garbage collector ! Works easy. But still, C was better. Faster programs, I can do whatever I want.
Then I discovered Zig in 2023. It was cool bc I could cross-compile C and C++ alongside Zig. The Syntax (yeah third time I repeat it) was annoying. Like Rust. But I like the fact there is no memory-safe aspect in the language design.
So even now, I use C and sometimes Assembly (doing a bootloader for my [breadboard computer](https://github.com/3dgoose/65b02), I know there's no MarkDown in DevRant) for some lowlevel projects and god does it go fast : 50kO max for assembly and 10mb for C, with some amazing compile time ! In fact I did a program to estimate Pi with Montecarlo method in Rust and Python and it got 20 minutes for 10^10000000000000000000000000000000000 while C and Assembly got 70 second (I swear at this point).
The world now is preferring memory safe languages like Rust but if you know how to manage memory in C, why use Rust ?
Sorry for bad english, bye
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