[kwlug-disc] Notes into "Rust or C" bucket

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 01:35:45AM +0000, Doug Moen wrote:
> The languages I've considered were C, C++, Rust and Zig. The choice
> depends on your requirements. For me, the requirements were good support
> for creating and dynamically loading shared libraries, writing and
> debugging low-level unsafe code, proper tail calls (which I would use
> to implement a tail-calling threaded interpreter), a good high level
> platform independent abstraction for SIMD operations, and a good library
> ecosystem for the types of services I'm interested, such as GPU and audio.

Now that's a delicious set of requirements! :-)

- Chris