0 sats \ 3 replies \ @jk_14 16 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language bitcoin
C for full control and maximum speed in critical apps
Go for fast writing of non-critical apps
C does not give you full control. Modern C compilers are extremely complex beasts, that do all kinds of unexpected optimizations. They also are limited in what optimizations they can perform, due to the fact that C code can't express things like ownership. So C compilers have to be pessimistic in many situations.
Rust just as fast as C, and gives you just as much control. But if you choose to use the safety features, it's far safer. The only reason not to use Rust instead of C is if your particular tool chain just doesn't have Rust support.
Comp-sci has moved on. C has simply become almost entirely obsolete, in a similar way to how raw assembly is almost entirely obsolete.
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OK, in my niche I'm using C and gcc, due to gigantic amount of binary data to process ultrafast...
On another subject:
There is only one situation which may trigger consensus for Bitcoin hardfork: quantum computing threat, which is impossible to solve with soft fork only. And it would be a good opportunity to simultaneously fix long term security budget problem...
We have got a single chance for having decentralized money. It looks like there is less and less devs saying: "two orders of magnitude is missing only"
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Modern C++ (post 2014) is a pretty nice in-between
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