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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).

On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

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[–] suy 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s just time to move on from C/C++, but some people just can’t seem to let go.

The Rust community has 2 websites that I keep periodically checking: Are we game yet? and Are we GUI yet?. The answers on those sites are respectively (as of February 2024, when this comment is written) "Almost. We have the blocks, bring your own glue" and "The roots aren't deep but the seeds are planted". I've seen the progress in Bevy and Slint, but it's still the same, those websites don't change, and my situation WRT to making a Rust project for fun or work it's the same.

I'll be happy to start doing Rust projects whenever I get the chance (which will be when it's a sufficient tool for my use cases). But I'm tired of smoke sellers.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Have you actually tried making a GUI or a game? I don't think you can summarize the state of the whole ecosystem in a sentence that doesn't change in years. I've made perfectly functional GUIs with iced, and imgui. Haven't tried slint yet.

Godot is a very popular game engine and it's written in rust, so you probably can use it in rust.

[–] einsteinx2 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Godot is written in C++ not Rust…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's true. I might've gotten confused because I saw godot rust bindings.

[–] suy 2 points 9 months ago

I've wanted to start a project in Rust, but for the ideas that I have (and the time that I have for a hobby project, as for work it's rarely starting a new one, but continuing and existing one), Rust seemed a viable, but not ideal alternative to just doing it all in C++, for which I already have enough knowledge and very well proven libraries. I will look again soon, and I will keep looking because eventually something will surely click, it's just that so far, the time has not been right.

Note that my point is not that it's unusable for everyone. Just that it's false that "some people just can't seem to let [C or C++] go", as the previous comment said. I can't let go something that works well for something that doesn't, given the projects that I have to work on.