ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agoIt's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slurlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1416arrow-down132
arrow-up1384arrow-down1external-linkIt's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slurlemmy.worldZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 3 months agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·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-up3·3 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.