From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Subject: Re: Ada vs. Rust for low level system software
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:10:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ulbsds$3foc$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulbptn$35lm$1@dont-email.me>
On 13/12/2023 08:27, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> What for? Any language comparisons lost their meaning long ago as the
> whole language business degraded into hobbyist/corporate bullshit.
True.
>> Since Ada is mainly used in this area, why has Rust, which is much
>> younger language, and target this same area has gained so much
>> popularity but not Ada?
I would say because they aimed to be a C++ replacement.
> Because it is always someone's arbitrary decision.
True.
> Then of course Rust continues the worst practices tried by Ada and C++:
> templates/generics, macros.
What's the alternative to generics?
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2023-12-13 4:28 Ada vs. Rust for low level system software Nasser M. Abbasi
2023-12-13 8:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-12-13 9:10 ` Luke A. Guest [this message]
2023-12-13 9:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-12-13 8:44 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-12-18 12:52 ` Kevin Chadwick
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