Microsoft to Explore Using Rust
It's interesting that someone in Microsoft is talking about Rust, but the article is very flawed. For example,<p>> C#, a programming language developed by Microsoft, also features some memory access improvements but is not as advanced as Rust. [..] Besides [Rust] being superior to C# in regards to better memory protections<p>That's false, isn't it? C# is a memory safe language, period. It relies on GC for that.<p>In fact C# has arguably better memory safety than Rust because you can do things safely in C# that you would be forced to use 'unsafe' in Rust for. (Granted, then you have overhead from GC, but that's not what the author is talking about.)<p>> Rust is also more popular with developers these days and might be easier to recruit for.<p>The author has misinterpreted what "most loved" means in the quoted survey: it means that <i>among Rust developers</i>, it gets a very high rating. That says nothing about how big that group is, nor how popular it is in the general population of developers.<p>The Rust community is growing but still very small - it's an emerging language. Almost everyone that uses it <i>decided</i> to use it because they like it. (That doesn't diminish the accomplishment - there are other emerging languages that are not as loved by their users.)