Rust is very comfy so far! Wrote what the Rust book suggests writing. If anyone knows Rust better than me please rate this code, it’s probably shit
@fugger See, I don't get why you call this comfy. Similar D code with similar performance and memory-safety would be so much comfier and so much easier to read
@fugger If stdin is closed such as from a ctrl-d read() returns 0 immediately so you get an empty string, otherwise you always have at least a \n
Idk how the rust code handles that
>not a fan of garbage collectors
I thought you liked Go, it's garbage collected. You can disable it in D but then you have to write things a bit more like rust
Rust if I am doing something like writing a game or backend and Go if I am doing something like idk a fediverse bot
>Variable shadowing
>Way it handles memory
>Immutable by default
>Expression and statements can be used in interesting ways hard to explain here
>Package manager
>128 bit number support natively probably will never use it just think it's neat combines two 64 bit numbers to my knowledge which basically has negligible proformance hit apparently :P
>Nice compiler errors will often just tell you how to fix the error
>Good ecosystem
>Unsafe code has to be put in unsafe block meaning it's much easier to find possible security vulnerabilities just by searching every instance of "unsafe {"
So fair only thing I hate is
>Have to type a shit ton not really issue in modern IDE
>Type inference
>Slow compile speeds
>Large binaries however can be mitigated quite easily with LTO among other things
@fugger I think variable shadowing is in basically everything
I dislike immutable by default because it's an extra keyword for the majority of variables while I've never had a bug ever occur from accidentally changing a variable that should have been const, plus, you'd probably define it mut out of habbit anyway. It feels like something mainly made for corporations with a billion people working on one codebase
You mean that every statement is an expression? Seems cool and useful but also a bit confusing. Seeing an if statement and not knowing whether it's "doing" or "returning" something
DUB package manager. It's pretty similar to cargo. dub add package, dub run
cent and ucent types
Generally with DMD too, bit less so with the clang and GCC versions
The ecosystem is the main thing that D really lacks. It's made by Walter Bright whereas rust is made by Mozilla and Go by google so it's hard to compete for attention
D lets you use @safe and they're introducing @live for borrow-checking
@fugger It's mainly a bug and readability thing. Compilers can always check if you're changing the value or not
