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0 pointsjeffdavis6y ago0 comments

Yes!

Rust is the first language that is both truly good as a low-level systems language and also truly good as a high-level modern labguage at the same time.

To me, it's amazing to finally have another option aside from just C/C++.

Technically, I might have had some other options before, but rust gets it right.

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johnisgood6y ago

I would say Ada/SPARK gets a lot of things right, too. What it lacks is hype and thus, a vibrant ecosystem. It can be a huge deal-breaker to many people.

jeffdavisOP6y ago

Ada does have a good ecosystem and community, just not what we'd call modern and mainstream.

I looked specifically at Ada, and for my use case macros are quite important. If I were to use Ada, I would need a separate code gen step.

I also need concurrency without making new threads. I know Ada can do async but it doesn't have something like tokio.

A shame. I wanted to give Ada a try, but didn't get very far before losing hope.

skocznymroczny6y ago

Have you taken a look at D? It might be what you're looking for. Although I wouldn't consider it mainstream.

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