I spend most of my programming time in C. The next language I intend
to use is Rust. I like its ideas but proof of the pudding is in the
eating. The cases where I would recommend C for new projects are few
and far between.
So I know precious little about programming languages. I looked up 'Rust programming language'.
Wikipedia (which can often be useful if not always totally accurate) listed it as:
" . . . a systems programming language
sponsored by Mozilla Research, which describes it as a "safe,
concurrent, practical language," supporting functional and
imperative-procedural paradigms. Rust is syntactically similar to C++,
but its designers intend it to provide better memory safety while
maintaining performance."
OK - - - sponsored by Mozilla (AIUI that sort means that its their baby) and its to '. . . provide better memory safety . . ." .
Well given how Mozilla products work for me - - - they don't really know anything about how to use memory. The only way I can keep using FF is to kill it every couple three days and then restart it. Somehow that isn't my idea of memory usage done well so if that's Rust - - - well then that's a total non-starter for me!