Atila's article on Reddit: "Rust impressions from a C++/D programmer, part 1"

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On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 16:00:06 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3s9cfe/rust_impressions_from_a_cd_programmer_part_1/
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> Ali

Atila wrote:

I thought I’d like Rust more than I actually do at this point. 
I’m glad I’m taking the time to learn it, but I’m not sure how 
likely I’ll choose to use it for any future project. Currently 
the only real advantage it has for me over D is that it has no 
runtime and could more easily be used on bare metal projects.

(I'm on an iPad. Sorry for idiot quoting.)

My point: until you can easily write D bare-metal code, without 
any runtime, and honestly without garbage collection, it just 
isn't a Real Systems Language.

With the World turning to IOT, and most startups having an 
embedded system as at least a part of their offering, even old 
languages should take this seriously. Not everybody actually 
fathoms the size of this tsunami, or the disruption it'll bring. 
It's like the 80's when mini-computer corporations did't notice 
micro manufacturers. From their perspective, the tide turned 
overnight. And now it's us.