[DISCUSS] Introducing Rust into the Git project \ stacker news ~rust

[DISCUSS] Introducing Rust into the Git project lore.kernel.org/git/ZZ77NQkSuiRxRDwt@nand.local/

279 sats \ 10 comments \ @whitewolf 29 May rust

Rust inside Git? 👀

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 29 May

Congratulations on your territorial expansion! Cheers to acquiring new lands! 🤠

155 sats \ 0 replies \ @whitewolf OP 29 May

Thanks!

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 29 May

It's probably inevitable unless we want git to go the way of awk or grep and get replaced with more user friendly, gui-ish things. I'll always be nostalgic for C though. Anything safer than C loses the ability to place your hands in the computer's viscera.

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 29 May

I'm not surprised. C (and C++) are mostly made obsolete by Rust. Just a matter of time before most things transition over.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @whitewolf OP 29 May

nobody knows if Rust will begin the new C++ so 10 yers from now we will get a new language that want replace Rust :)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 29 May

C++ replaced C... and C itself replaced other lanages, especially assembly. So yeah, in 10 or 20 years something will probably start replacing Rust too. Nothing wrong with that.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @whitewolf OP 29 May

C++ did not replace C IMHO

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 29 May

C didn't entirely replace assembly either. And Rust isn't going to entirely replace C or C++ (or assembly!). But a lot of stuff that would have been written in C, got written in C++ instead, which is close enough for this discussion.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rsync25 29 May

👀

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 29 May freebie

Hope enough people leave their Rust honeymoon in time for it not to oxidize too many important projects.

Love the lack of GC, RAII and aliasing-resistance but the async implementation was a mistake and probably shouldn't exist at all.