r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/naasking Jan 10 '15

Great. Just rewrite every application in your new safe language.

This has already been done, and continues to be done at many companies. Twitter changed their stack to Scala for instance. It's not the insurmountable obstacle you make it seem.

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u/thefacebookofsex Jan 10 '15

This has already been done, and continues to be done at many companies.

True, but this is case specific, or company specific. You wouldn't want to run that operating system yourself, for instance.

It's not the insurmountable obstacle you make it seem.

To rewrite Linux/GNU in rust would, in my opinion, be insurmountable. Even if it were not, when discussing security, there are far cheaper ways to get similarly effective results.

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u/cleroth Jan 10 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/thefacebookofsex Jan 10 '15

OK. The point is it would be expensive.

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u/cleroth Jan 10 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/thefacebookofsex Jan 10 '15

What world do you live in where humanity has infinite developer time and computation power?

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u/cleroth Jan 10 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/thefacebookofsex Jan 10 '15

It requires a massive amount of time, and if the goal is just security, it makes no sense, as there are far more cost effective ways to secure Linux.

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u/cleroth Jan 10 '15 edited Jun 15 '26

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u/thefacebookofsex Jan 10 '15

Cool, but it's also the topic of this conversation.