Well in your case specifically, I'm really not sure tbh.
> You think the authors of unix would have used c if they could have bootstrapped rust instead?
Considering that Ken Thompson later helped building Go, which is pretty much an anti-Rust, I do indeed think that they wouldn't have gone with an overengineered boondoggle like Rust if they had the choice.
Apparently Brian Kernighan also isn't a big fan of Rust, quote:
"I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,” he said. “And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!"
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> How fucking stupid do you think we are.
Well in your case specifically, I'm really not sure tbh.
> You think the authors of unix would have used c if they could have bootstrapped rust instead?
Considering that Ken Thompson later helped building Go, which is pretty much an anti-Rust, I do indeed think that they wouldn't have gone with an overengineered boondoggle like Rust if they had the choice.
Apparently Brian Kernighan also isn't a big fan of Rust, quote:
"I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,” he said. “And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!"