Reply to post: Re: Don't be a tease

Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

DrXym

Re: Don't be a tease

Rust isn't recoloured C++. And it isn't weakly typed, actually it is strongly typed. Most of the time it infers the type from the function you are calling so you don't have to repeatedly declare it. Neither is the syntax obtuse, it's actually a lot simpler than C++ for a variety of reasons.

As for why Mozilla invented Rust, that is simple. They wanted to introduce parallelism into their browser engine without compromising security. That is a hideously complex task at the best of times without the implementation language adding its own problems. So they saw Rust as a good thing as indeed it has turned out to be.

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