theo h. mann on Nostr: >And, you know, there are many more C++ developers that work in kernel space than ...

>And, you know, there are many more C++ developers that work in kernel space than Rust developers know kernel internals (oops, another citation need). So, naturally, a large portion of C++ developers can smell the rubbish in this claim. Which is unfortunate because this increases animosity between the two communities, which goes against the goal of converting folks to safe languages. Rust folks know that Rust can definitely help make the situation better, but C++ folks cannot get bought into it because the arguments they hear don’t resonate with them.

The main issue is evangelism. I see rust being shilled by a lot of rather unskilled and low-headknowledge individuals who believe that memory safety is the boon that fixes all programming issues. Im not denying the value of good tooling and preventative design, but when the people that surround a language are ostensibly intolerable it brings everything down with it.


(quote from https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/crowdstrike-and-rust)