Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

From: Kyryl Melekhin <k.melekhin_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 21:40:33 +0000

Jeremy <jer_AT_jer.cx> wrote:

> What does Ada(or Rust for that matter) do better than C?
>
> Surely, you have all of the tools for static analysis, debugging, macros
> for C that you would for any other language, no?
>
> I could understand generics, interfaces, iterators, OOP and all of that
> from a masturbatory standpoint, but that aspect aside, what utility do
> these provide over C?
>
> Jeremy

Rationally, there is nothing better than C. I wish all the other things
did not exist, so that people would stop piling crap on top of crap.
It takes a solid engineering discipline, which is long forgotten.

Kyryl.
Received on Mon Apr 19 2021 - 23:40:33 CEST