Open Source

30929 readers

232 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Prossimo project aims to replace memory unsafe C/C++ code with Rust (www.memorysafety.org)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The projects they want to make safer includes Linux, curl, sudo, among others.

Just found it and I think this will be interesting for this community.

top 9 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I'm in my 40s, and finally decided to give C/C++ a serious go and try to learn them at a competent level after decades of putting it off, and now everybody wants to move to Rust.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Actually this is probably a good time for you to get into Rust, since everyone is still at the starting point (ish), and you, unlike others, don't have decades of C/C++ habits ingrained in you. So if you're starting off fresh, Rust is not a bad language to dip your toes into. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm at the level of finally understanding pointers, templates, and operator/function overloads and using them pretty effortlessly now. I looked at some Rust code. I'm not sure I have the brain plasticity to take that on at my age now without massive struggling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That was me with PHP a decade ago. I was moving towards it as everyone was moving to JavaScript.

And honestly I'm gaining an appreciation for it all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A few too many superlatives in their pitches for my taste. Not a bad idea overall, though the bias in favor of Rust is strong. Did it really become the go-to (heh) memory safe programming language for performance ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Another project that does a very similar thing is around for a couple of years already, https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds awesome to me. And I like that they have such narrow (achievable) goals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds good. Hopefully they also find some way to dynamically link libraries, to make the binary size and memory footprint smaller, compared to common rust programs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

What is this? Looks like a website filled with info about projects unrelated to it and gathering donations for unknown purpose.