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Very much agreed. It's not like the anti-Rust comments are much better. They're often quite biased in the other direction and rest upon arguments that boil down to "if you write C++ correctly, it's a very good language". But of course, Rust has flaws and design decisions that make it a poor fit for many people/usecases. Really I'd love it if people kept an open mind, did their research and tried to not let their biases rule their judgement.



All those arguments, as usual, also fail to discuss the existing ecosystems.

Sure one can somehow write Rust-CUDA but is going to have an uphill fight versus someone just crusing along focused on the actual problem, instead of building infrastructure.

That is just one example.


What weirds me out is to see your comment grayed out within minutes of posting. Have an upvote, it's a valid point you are making.


I survived USENET and Slashdot, and am the first generation out of a 40 years dictatorship, downvotes on Internet forums don't bother me.

Thanks for the upvote anyway.


Oh yeah that's a valid criticism. Same reason why I don't plan on writing a CRUD API in Rust. It's an uphill slog compared to Rails or Node.


I thought that's the one part that had a bunch of frameworks already made




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