• Lucy :3@feddit.org
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          3 months ago

          I care, when I need to compile a lot of stuff multiple times on not-as-fast machines. I’ll create a private repo powered by my workstation just for this. For C stuff I don’t need to, because I can just use my workstations power via distcc.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Issue is, Rust is not a drop-in replacement for C. The memory safety features are just one part, and since Rust is also a “weakly” functional language, thus its prefered to write such code with it.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            3 months ago

            Yeah, it’s not a small change. If there was a simpler way to make C memory-safe, it would have been done decades ago. It’s just a different language too, which is fair given how much younger it is.

          • lad@programming.dev
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            3 months ago

            Anything that is drop-in replacement for C (or C++ for that matter) is going to be awful because of the same compatibility burden, imo