<story><title>Rust vs C Pitfalls</title><url>http://www.garin.io/rust-vs-c-pitfalls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>The kind of safety guarantees Rust provides are, in my opinion, insufficient justification for experienced developers to move from C or C++. Rust has other features that make it generally superior in certain (many) contexts. The safety is a nice &amp;quot;add-on&amp;quot; effect, I suppose, but my view is that constantly hyping safety as the biggest selling point is missing a mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mmstick</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve seen fatal flaws from supposed experienced C and C++ developers in a large number of high profile projects, that would otherwise be nuked from existence had they used Rust.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also encountered severe flaws in libraries written by experienced programmers working for companies like Google and Red Hat that the Rust compiler caught during translation to Rust.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not counting the immense amount of tooling and features that make managing large projects a breeze in Rust. Managing a 100K Rust project with a large team is easier than managing a 100K C++ project with a large team. You can&amp;#x27;t guarantee that no one will ever make mistakes.&lt;p&gt;I find segmentation faults to be common place in C&amp;#x2F;C++ projects from experienced developers, and it&amp;#x27;s quite difficult to debug them at times.</text></comment>
<story><title>Rust vs C Pitfalls</title><url>http://www.garin.io/rust-vs-c-pitfalls</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sidlls</author><text>The kind of safety guarantees Rust provides are, in my opinion, insufficient justification for experienced developers to move from C or C++. Rust has other features that make it generally superior in certain (many) contexts. The safety is a nice &amp;quot;add-on&amp;quot; effect, I suppose, but my view is that constantly hyping safety as the biggest selling point is missing a mark.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>db48x</author><text>If only these mythical experienced developers that never shoot themselves in the foot actually existed.</text></comment>