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Date: 18 Jun 2025 23:09:53 GMT
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:23:21 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 06:09 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> On 6/18/25 1:30 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote at 03:03 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>> On 6/14/25 7:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:30:34 +0200, Andreas Eder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You meaybe thinking of Redox OS https://www.redox-os.org/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That name is obviously meant to be a kind of word play on “Rust”.
>>>>>> As I recall from my high-school chemistry lessons, a “redox
>>>>>> reaction” is one where one reactant is “reduced” (gains electrons)
>>>>>> while the other is “oxidized” (loses them). This may or may not
>>>>>> involve actual oxygen atoms (which are notorious eaters of
>>>>>> electrons), but the concept has been generalized from that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The slight irony is that the name “Rust” does not come from the
>>>>>> well-known redox reaction that iron undergoes with water in the
>>>>>> presence of oxygen (catalyzed by a little bit of polar contaminants
>>>>>> such as common salt), but from the name of a kind of fungus.
>>>>>
>>>>>     "Fungus" ??? TOO CRUEL !
>>>>>
>>>>>     Rust is perfectly OK ... but I don't see much advantage over
>>>>>     plain 'C'. Lots of 'new langs' are like that, just 'C' with
>>>>>     nastier syntax.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Rust I personally dislike the syntax of, AND its development team is
>>>> apparently pretty controversial.
>>>
>>>
>>>    IMHO, stick to 'C' ... but use GOOD PRACTICES.
>> 
>> Makes sense to me.
> 
> Yes, assuming a perfectly infallable programmer, C can be "memory safe"
> as well.

I don't know rust at all but I wonder if it's like Stroustrup's comment on 
C++ -- it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot but when you do you blow 
your whole leg off.