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RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama
Loris Cro's Blog
One line of thinking that I’ve seen pushed forward from the Rust side of the argument, is that they are just doing uncontroversially good technical work, and that the amount of pushback they’re experiencing is unwarranted. Destructors Macros Lifetimes Operator overloading Those are major reasons why I chose Rust for the drm/asahi driver… It sounds like Zig is trying to be “modern C”… but the whole point of R4L is to not get stuck with C Extremely popular talk on the advantages of looking at problems as data transformation pipelines, where Mike Acton shows how common approaches in C++ (RAII being one of them) are antithetical to the goal of creating performant code.
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