Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)

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fvalasiad writes:

> Codebases out there using C++ as if its C with classes, completely out of
> the loop regarding modern technologies. And I am talking about userland here.

There are two cases here.

But here we are talking about bringing an existing mature C codebase
into the Century of the Fruitbat, without doing a total rewrite in
one go.

The first step is to get (relevant parts of) the code into a C++ compiler.

Steps two to N are:

Reap tangible benefits by employing features of C++ language as that
becomes possible and sensible (ie: as the C++ specific runtime
environment becomes available).

"C with classes" is a very sensible step along that (long) journey IMO.

But if we were talking a new green-field project that would be utterly silly.

Poul-Henning


PS: C++ was called "C with classes" first time I heard about it in 1985 :-)

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