@[email protected] to Programmer Humor • 2 days agoIt's official, Rust is an anti C/C++ elitist slurlemmy.worldimagemessage-square91fedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down132
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-212 hours agoHmm. So I guess it comes down to what OP is doing. They either want to write a Rust library, or something that uses a Rust library that may not be standardised or even exist yet. If the latter, they should stick with C.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 day agoWriting C bindings to a Rust library is the easier scenario because you can rely on the safe code having nice and clean memory semantics.
Hmm. So I guess it comes down to what OP is doing. They either want to write a Rust library, or something that uses a Rust library that may not be standardised or even exist yet. If the latter, they should stick with C.
Writing C bindings to a Rust library is the easier scenario because you can rely on the safe code having nice and clean memory semantics.