Wrote a small amount of Rust over the holidays and, oddly, enjoyed it?
If you’d asked me a month ago I would have said I simply do not have fun writing in low-level languages, but I would have secretly thought: The actual problem is C, a bad language that is unpleasant to deal with. Now I feel the same way but am more confident in it.
@vruba Writing good C code is hard. It can be done of course, but it takes a lot of effort, and still often bugs related to memory management or threading will remain. A programmer can write good code more efficiently when computers take over some of this burden, either at runtime or at compile-time such as with Rust.
@anji Every time someone refers to C as being well written, it looks to me like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_Man, except instead of injuries it’s code smells. But naturally this is a matter of taste.
