Re: VMS

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

  I've nothing AGAINST Rust ... though frankly it seems
  redundant, you could do it almost as easily in 'C'.
  Too many 'new languages' just seem to be 'C' knock-offs
  with crappier syntax.

Rust's big claim to fame was/is memory safety -- that you can't have
buffer overflows or writes to unallocated memory.   And that by making
such actions impossible, Rust programs can not suffer from the security
breaches that occur when someone exploits a buffer overflow in an
existing C program.

In essence it does for you all the "checking error codes" and "checking
buffer sizes for sufficient space before writing" that C programmers
have to had manually, and sometimes forget to include.