> Periodically, especially in r/cpp I run into people who are apparently faultless and so don't make the mistakes that make these languages dangerous, weirdly none of these people seem to have written any software I can inspect to see for myself what that looks like, and furthermore the universe I live in doesn't seem to have any of the resulting software.
So basically Jeff Sutherland ever since he started talking about AI. "My AI agents have formed a Scrum team that's 30 times faster than any human developer!" Great, Jeff. Working in which company's production codebase?
Yeah, well, as stated: software written by humans will have bugs.
The real danger with Rust is the cult like delusion that's not the case for them.
To be sure, my Rust has bugs in it, but none of them come close to the spooky nonsense that could happen in my C and yet the performance is excellent. Probably more than once a day Rust's compiler rejects code that an analogous C compiler would wave through - and maybe it'd survive testing too, at least for a while.