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acct776 | 5 years ago

> If our tools require us to be perfect, maybe they're just not good tools for some goals.

> if they failed a few times, that's a pretty strong argument against C++.

Well, they're migrating (at least part of) the codebase to Rust, in a lot of places because of security. Make your own conclusion, I guess?

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stjohnswarts|5 years ago

The claim was that it couldn't be done, as in not possible. Not that it's not a lot easier because of ground up design for concurrency in rust, maybe even an order or two of magnitude easier. However to claim it can't be done in C++ at all is silly. To claim it couldn't be done by the team working on it with the given time frame and resources is a legit claim however.