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[–] hunger 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Read the proposal: Lifetimes annotations, the rust standard library (incl. basic types like Vec, ARc, ...), first class tuples, pattern matching, destructive moves, unsafe, it is all in there.

The proposal is really to bolt on Rust to the side of C++, with all the compatibility problems that brings by necessity.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Gonna need to start calling it C++++ at this point. So much extra shit in the standard library

[–] hunger 1 points 11 hours ago

Well, its a brand new standard library. A fresh start.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

C# be like, am i a joke to you?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

I'm not sure, C# wants to hear the response to this...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, i prefer that over minimal standard libraries where you need dotzens of changing depencies for the simplest stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah standard libraries are great but C++ has a lot of... cruft. Maybe don't plonk a lot of Rust in there despite all the positives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, not saying C++ isn't cluttered.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah ok just read the article and not the proposal. I'm surprised that they went that far but as I wrote I think that lifetime annotations are a good idea, hope the C++ people find a way to add them to the language that actually works well, which sounds like an incredibly difficult task.

[–] hunger 1 points 11 hours ago

"They" did not go anywhere yet. This is a proposal, nothing more. It will take serious discussions over years to get this into C++.

Prominent figures already said they prefer safety profiles as a less intrusive and more C++ approach at conferences It will be fun to watch this and the other safety proposals going forward.