Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)

On 9/9/24 10:05, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 9 Sep 2024, at 14:32, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>
>> David Chisnall writes:
>>
>>> On 9 Sep 2024, at 12:24, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What might that subset be?
>>>>
>>>> Initially it will be "better C compiler", but then we will gradually
>>>> allow more and more of C++ to be used.
>>>
>>> In my experience, the worst C++ code is written by people thinking in C.
>>> The second worst is written by people thinking in Java (or Smalltalk).
>>
>> I dont disagree :-)
>>
>> But it's either a gradual approach or "never" because a rewrite in 
>> toto wont happen.
>
> I agree, incremental change is always better.  I just don’t want to 
> encourage anyone to write C++ that looks like C, because that’s going 
> to combine the frustrations people have with C and C++.  A gradual 
> approach needs a simple step 1, but it also needs a step 2, and then a 
> step 3, and so on.
>
Second.