cpp-vs-rust VS v-mode

> They seem to have chosen to use mold for C++ and not for Rust after seeing that it gave little benefit for small projects, but I would expect that to change as the project scales.

The benchmarks show Mold for both Rust and C++. This wasn't explicitly stated in the article; sorry. https://github.com/quick-lint/cpp-vs-rust/blob/f8d31341f5cac...

Very well-researched article (in my uninformed opinion because I've done virtually no benchmarking). I'd summarize it as, Rust doesn't significantly improve build times over C++ for a project where you need to frequently recompile to test the logic of the code. I gather that the Rust code is pretty idiosyncratic (using raw pointers rather than slices and custom owned and borrowed string containers with i32 length and capacity fields), but I don't know why more idiomatic Rust code would be faster to compile, and it could be very different, so a worse comparison. The results aren't relevant for me because I use Rust mainly for the language features and don't have a project with terrible compile times or the need to often rerun tests, but there might be other C++ projects in the same boat as quick-lint-js that would consider moving to Rust if it compiled faster than C++. Hopefully the efforts of people like u/nnethercote will make that happen.

Fingers crossed for vlang[0]. It's like golang with better types and more syntactic sugar. Feels like a proper upgrade from Python.

I really hope they succeed.

[0]: https://vlang.io/

And again a No true Scotsman. If that's the kind of attitude you have towards languages, you'll appreciate V infinitely more than you might be appreciating Rust. After all, it offers better solutions than Rust, like autofree, they just aren't there yet :)

I discovered VLang today. It's an interesting project.

According to their own benchmarks, Seed7 can run faster than C (it compiles to C, but it's entirely possible the emited code is better optimized than a human could write directly in C)... it doesn't have a GC BUT manages memory automatically (I didn't really follow the explanation in the FAQ, something about automatically freeing variables that go out of scope and keeping only one reference around?)... that's like a current pipe dream for language designers! From https://vale.dev/ to https://vlang.io/, no one has pulled that off yet, to my knowledge... has Seed7 done that all those years ago?!

Help V programming language to gain more popularity and show to game development community that this is a good language for game development

Try http://vlang.io