Comments by "Toby" (@toby9999) on "what is wrong with rust and linux????" video.

  1. They all do much the same thing at mid to low level, and C and C++ are as capable now as they were 30 years ago. Actually, more so. Throwing a new language at stable code is worse than pointless in my opinion.
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  2. Exceot it's not true.
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  3. @purpasmart_4831 Your first sentence (washed up boomer) describes me. I'll try not to take offence :)
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  4. I hate the rust syntax. I think it's kind of ugly and unintuitive and breaks perfectly acceptable syntax norms. That said, if I was 10 years younger, I would invest the effort to learn rust because I like low-level, highly performant languages/ implementations. I think rust will become widelly adopted over time. But I'm a 60 yr old C and C++ developer. It's too late to change to a new language that at this stage is still rather niche. I suspect a lot of experienced folk will be in the same boat. As for the criticisms of C being dangerous, bug prone and so on... I believe much of the criticism is due to people forgetting what C was developed for. It's an inherent feature of the language that it's easy to create memory related bugs. It's not a design flaw. Here I'm refering to folk who bash C for being what it is.
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