Adding Java and C++ to the MQTT benchmarks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Collector

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:59:59 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 23:43:43 UTC, NoUseForAName 
> wrote:
>> Looks pretty boring/conventional to me. If you know many 
>> programming languages you immediately recognize "let" as a 
>> common keyword for assignment.
>
> Yes, but I cannot think of a single one of them that I would 
> like to use! ;-)
>
>> That leaves only the funny sounding "mut" as slightly unusual. 
>> It is the result of making immutable the default which I think 
>> is a good decision.
>
> Agree on the last point, immutable should be the default. 
> Altough I think they should have skipped both "let" and "mut" 
> and used a different symbol for initial-assignment instead.
>
>> (I am not part of that majority, though). I mean C gave us 
>> classics like "atoi".. still reminds me of "ahoi" every time I 
>> read it. And I will never get over C++'s "cout" and "cin". See?
>
> I don't mind cout, I hardly use cin, I try to avoid cerr, and 
> I've never used clog… I mind how you configure iostreams 
> though. It looks worse than printf, not sure how they managed 
> that.
>
>> Rust makes C/C++ damaged people feel right at home even there 
>> ;P
>
> Well, I associate "let" with the functional-toy-languages we 
> created/used at the university in the 90s so I kind of have 
> problem taking Rust seriously. And the name? RUST? Decaying 
> metal. Why? It gives me the eerie feeling that the designers 
> are either brilliant, mad or both, or that it is a practical 
> joke. I'm sure the compiler randomly tells you Aprils Fools! Or 
> something.

You mean the toy languages that are slowly replacing C++ in the 
finance industry?