• lad
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    152 months ago

    I think, the idea was along the lines of “because C++ was not memory-safe, and it has to stay compatible with how it was, there are still a lot of ways to not write memory-safely”

    This makes sense, there are memory-safely features available but there are a lot of programmers that will never willingly use that features, because the olden ways are surely better

    Other than that, I agree, when you’re paid to fix an unfixable problem you will probably claim something like that and advocate for your solution being the only one that solves this

    • @0x0@programming.dev
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      -122 months ago

      there are a lot of programmers that will never willingly use that features, because the olden ways are surely better

      Found the rust shill.

      • lad
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        22 months ago

        If you want everyone to stop trying to shove Rust everywhere, just use smart pointers more. I may somehow get over Rust not replacing every other language if those languages will be safe