On Monday, January 30, 2023, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> I did not want to disrupt the FD 2 discussion, but I could not really let
> this comment go unanswered:
>
> "Smells like C++ to me. Rust in essence is a re-implementation of C++ not
> C. It tries to pack as much features as it possibly can. "
>
> It's hard for me to see how you can say this if you have done any work in
> Rust and C++.
>
> But, short form: Rust is not C++. Full stop.
>
> I did not feel that comment should go unanswered, lest people believe it.
>

Well, I will stand by my opinion, but perhaps you misread what I meant. I
meant that as a whole Rust resembles more C++ than C. Technically it might
lie in between C and C++, but the amount of "features" certainly bring it
closer to C++. While it might be easier to write safer code in Rust than in
C++, I still think that its "weird" syntax and feature bloat make me
dislike it the way I dislike C++.

Just my .02. YMMV.

--Andy