Brodie Robertson
If there's 1 stupid idea I can eliminate this year I want people to stop thinking that Rust is the special chosen memory safe language, instead of the reality which is memory safety is the standard, languages like C are the exception. The only reason why memory safety is a discussion is because C is such a popular and ingrained language.
The methods by which memory safety happens are special but we can't even talk about that if we focus on the stupid shit.
Brodie Robertson
@10leej Depends on the leak, most leaks are allocation issues which cannot be stopped unless you don't let people allocate memory
Joshua Lee
@BrodieOnLinux memory leaks are memory safe
Brodie Robertson
@techokami TLDR on Ada, not really looked into it
Techokami
@BrodieOnLinux I predict I am going to be violently roasted for saying this, but people hate Ada for the same reasons they love Rust
Brodie Robertson
@sgued The memory safety thing is a red herring that people only talk about because other people talk about.
Soso
@BrodieOnLinux Rust is not popular because of memory safety.
It's popular because it's pretty much the only language to be new-ish and to have actively learned from most past languages, including niche functional ones, making it a very very enjoyable language to use.
The memory safety bit is only relevant for low level system stuff where almost all other memory safe languages need a garbage collector and a huge runtime that is either slow or memory hungry.
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