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People who claim that other languages beyond C, C++ are BS. What is their deal? (lemmy.ml)
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I have met a couple of them in real life, and a few I have met online. The sample is not significant enough to draw any conclusions about their point of view and background.

I am more than interested in your opinions about the personality and political makeup of people who express this type of pro-C bigotry.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Which foreign concepts do Rust use? The borrow checker/ownership is new but that's really the only thing that doesn't already exist in some other language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The borrow checker checks literally that you don't take foreign things, so there is that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The borrow checker, the way it handles exceptions and nulls, the way it handles stack/heap (possibly foreign to me because I've never done much on C), composition pattern instead of oop, probably more I'm forgetting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The borrow checker

This is indeed pretty unique.

the way it handles exceptions and nulls

This is really just the fact that Rust has sum types - but those kinds of types have been used in many functional languages (Haskell for example) for a long time.

the way it handles stack/heap

This is just the same as C and C++ and any other low-level language that requires you to distinguish between the stack and heap.

composition pattern instead of oop

I mean if you're only looking at OOP languages then this will be new, but functional languages have done this for a long time.

So yea, I think a big part of what makes Rust great is that it has managed to take these really, really good ideas from functional programming languages and made them work in a language that is not entirely functional. This leads to a perfect blend/best of both worlds with regards to OOP and functional programming :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah it’s just the borrow checker and ownership stuff that throws you for a loop. Particularly with large system design