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[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 January 2016 at 15:14:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> All language comparisons involve "bashing" other languages. 
> Otherwise there is no answer when someone asks "Why language X 
> rather than language Y?"

  Sometimes it's just one language feature (or lack of it) that 
makes (or breaks) the decision to use it. If you step back and 
consider a starting point from which all discussions must 
eventually flow, that starting point is most likely C (I doubt 
assembly language is considered since it's too low level). So 
invariably there MUST be comparison and bashing between 
languages. Truthfully I'll happily bash C, it has a horrible 
memory management model that requires way too careful of 
management. But that doesn't mean it's a bad language, in many 
cases it's still a very very fine language, especially for 
writing code for PIC chips and the like.

> http://www.oreilly.com/programming/free/files/why-rust.pdf
>
> That's not a random forum post. It's a document promoting Rust, 
> linked on the Rust homepage, and produced by O'Reilly. Here are 
> a few quotes:
>
> <snip>

  All of the quotes seem well thought out, and truthful. If Rust 
provides a good way to deal with and take advantage of the 
features, then they will probably get a wider audience.

>
> And ironically, in this very thread, a C++ programmer has 
> called D a toy language.

  Toy language? I recall BASIC was considered a beginners language 
back in the day, and yet so much code is written with it. True 
since the language was more fully implemented on DOS with Qbasic 
and later Visual Basic; But as long as you can get the work done 
then I wouldn't see a problem