[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2022 8:03 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/29/2022 7:13 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> And it is not just me.
>>
>> The rust people are rewriting GNU Coreutils (C) in
>> rust.
>>
>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Coreutils-Jan-2022 
> 
> Why?

The article explains why. Better security.

> Seems like another "language of the week".  It ain't broke, but they are 
> fixing it anyway.

C is not really the right language for that type of application. There
is no need for any unsafe features just unnecessary risk.

Whether Rust is the right language to replace it is another question.

Rust is 11 years old now. And have a pretty good backing: Mozilla,
Linux kernel, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Telenor, ByteDance,
Canonical, Baidu, DropBox etc. are all using Rust in some way.

Are they given to be the future? No. Still way to soon to say. But
they are a serious contender.

And there are limited alternatives. "Modern" C++ and Go are
the only two that comes to my mind.

Arne