Ok, I really like the approach Rust is taking and appreciate their effort to make low-level system programming safer, but it really is getting ridiculous. Not that implementing a DB system in Rust would be infeasible, but advocating to just rewrite some large projects in Rust is probably not the step forward.
Waiting for a flamewar on the LKML on this.
"Hey, Linux devs. I heard there is this nice language called Rust. Do you mind rewriting your OS in this? Ok, might not be possible over the weekend, but maybe over a year? Maybe use some Deep Learning to automagically transform the code?"
Ok, I really like the approach Rust is taking and appreciate their effort to make low-level system programming safer, but it really is getting ridiculous. Not that implementing a DB system in Rust would be infeasible, but advocating to just rewrite some large projects in Rust is probably not the step forward.
Note that the OP has, afaik, no involvement in the rust project. Nor has he done much hacking on postgres. Don't think the rust people can be blamed for that one.
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Ok, I really like the approach Rust is taking and appreciate their effort to make low-level system programming safer, but it really is getting ridiculous. Not that implementing a DB system in Rust would be infeasible, but advocating to just rewrite some large projects in Rust is probably not the step forward.
Waiting for a flamewar on the LKML on this.
"Hey, Linux devs. I heard there is this nice language called Rust. Do you mind rewriting your OS in this? Ok, might not be possible over the weekend, but maybe over a year? Maybe use some Deep Learning to automagically transform the code?"
I smell an upcoming Linus Rust rant.
Note that the OP has, afaik, no involvement in the rust project. Nor has he done much hacking on postgres. Don't think the rust people can be blamed for that one.
Yeah, that was probably phrased poorly. I wanted to criticize the "just rewrite it in Rust" evangelists, not the Rust makers.
And a corresponding NVIDIA video?