A D vs. Rust example

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On Thursday, 20 October 2022 at 14:26:07 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 October 2022 at 13:37:07 UTC, Don Allen wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Actually, Rust is even worse for embedded, OS, near hardware 
> programming. The memory model just gets in the way of doing 
> those things. Example of things in OS programming are often 
> intrusive containers, pointers/references pointing in all 
> directions and sometimes even to itself, multiple use of 
> containers for the same object, chicken and egg problems. This 
> is where the memory model of just Rust breaks down. Of course 
> you have to use unsafe everywhere but as soon as you do that, 
> things get ugly very quickly. For these tasks C++ is still the 
> obvious choice. However, this is not normal programming and you 
> have to do tricks that you never usually do in application 
> programming.
>
> [...]

I have also experienced this. We tried using Rust at work for 
embedded but it slowed us down so much to the point we decided to 
just do it in C instead.