Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "The C Programming Language is Over 50 Years Old, So Today I Learned Rust" video.

  1. I think, only a language with a similar feature set as C will be able to replace C. Most important: * no GC * static types * no RAII (like Rust has) But some things might be improved: * arrays as function parameters are currently interpreted as pointers * maybe pointer dereferencing could be simplified (a.b on pointers would just be &a->b, and *a.b would be a->b or (*a).b) * maybe "loop" like in rust would be a nice addition * explicit types for every variable are currently necessary and could be removed And generally, the syntax could be changed a bit, or what I'd prefer, the language should be defined in terms of a tree, and there could be multiple syntaxes for that language (one similar to current C, one simple s expression based like lisp, one indentation based like python, one visual language, etc.)
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  2.  @shadamethyst1258  I agree to that. I'm just saying, a C replacement should not have RAII.
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  3. 2:30 So much about this hello world program is not very rusty. Why do you need a return in a function, which does not return anything? You wouldn't even do that in Java or C. And you didn't run rustfmt on it. Normally you don't put opening braces into a single line.
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  4.  @ccriztoff  Why do YOU tell me that?
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