Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "Rust and RAII Memory Management - Computerphile" video.

  1. Your criticisms of the C language are not actually language issues, they're programmer mistakes. For instance, you don't or shouldn't access memory you don't have... that's programming 101. Rust doesn't really solve these issues, it just pretends to.
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  2. It's pretty basic stuff that any half decent programmer should get right. It bugs me when people blame such things on the language. Like blaming a car for driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
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  3. After trying rust, I'll never want to use rust again. C++ provides everything I need already without having to re learn everything.
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  4. The rust syntax is hideous in my opinion. They've switched away from a very common and well understould syntax style to something quite unintuative... a bizzare grab bag of styles borrowed from various languages... why? Just because they could? The chance to design something elegant squandered.
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  5. ​ @ifcoltransg2 Yeah, which is why I dislike python.
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  6. ​ @dynfoxx Perhaps it boils down to personal preference? I don't see anything significant in rust syntax that makes it "better". Maybe I'm just biased because I've been coding in C and C++ for decades?
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  7. I still use new and delete and never have a problem with it.
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