> "I'm going to state the obvious, that Rust is very good for security, for parallelism, for performance".
That's not obvious.
> He is "almost certain" that code he writes in Rust is going to work well on everything from Android to Windows.
I'd think the problem with security in code is cocky developers who believe that some part of the environment is magical and can save them from themselves.
> Ledru cited laziness as another reason for using Rust. "So if there is a crate or library doing that work, I'm going to use it. I'm not going to implement it [myself]."
Precisely. Where does this "certainty" come from then?
> He is thinking about "what we are going to leave to the next generation".
At this rate, a complete and total mess, of two slightly incompatible libraries neither of which have any significant features which differentiate it from the other, save for in the imagination of the developers themselves.
That's not obvious.
> He is "almost certain" that code he writes in Rust is going to work well on everything from Android to Windows.
I'd think the problem with security in code is cocky developers who believe that some part of the environment is magical and can save them from themselves.
> Ledru cited laziness as another reason for using Rust. "So if there is a crate or library doing that work, I'm going to use it. I'm not going to implement it [myself]."
Precisely. Where does this "certainty" come from then?
> He is thinking about "what we are going to leave to the next generation".
At this rate, a complete and total mess, of two slightly incompatible libraries neither of which have any significant features which differentiate it from the other, save for in the imagination of the developers themselves.