D vs Rust

[Saša Janiška via Digitalmars-d]

bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> writes:


Hello bearophile,

and thank you very much for your insightful reply!

> But for an average multi-platform desktop application Ada is not a
> good idea. The main problem is not the language itself (that is very
> verbose, but that's not a show-stopper), but the tooling (very scarce,
> and very pricey, very few compilers, very few IDEs, etc), the
> community (small), and the libraries (not many). A sufficiently rich
> and sufficiently determined group of programmers could probably write
> a regular desktop application in Ada, but you're walking uphill for
> not enough reason. Sometimes worse is better because it's actually
> overall better.

Very useful info and I've arrived to the same conclusion.

> There is a recent thread about Ada on Reddit, but unfortunately the
> best comment in that page has being deleted... :-)

I was reading it several times and possibly noticed it, but now it does
not matter since I consider myself as D user. ;)


Sincerely,
Gour

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Bewildered by the modes of material nature, the ignorant fully
engage themselves in material activities and become attached. But
the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior
due to the performers' lack of knowledge.