<div><div dir="auto">Erlang newbie here ... jumping into the subject.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While agree with most of the ideas about security, speed ... I still can't get some really basic things.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Why one should trade a time-proven, close to metal, fars language like C with more than ~40yrs of existence with a new one? We don't even know if Rust will exist in the near future. That's not gonna be the case for C apparently (IoT, etc.).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. Why simply not simply learn how to better code our NIF/Drivers instead? C was/is my main programming language for many years now, and I didn't have any major issue with it (medium to large projects) in production environment so far. Maybe I'm just lucky, maybe not.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for your comments and feedbacks.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/Frank</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 09/21/2017 06:15 PM, James Churchman wrote:<br>
> My opinion is that a full re-write of all VM's in Rust, especially the<br>
> Erlang VM should be a very very high priority in the world of computing<br>
<br>
There's a reason Netscape died...<br>
<br>
Perhaps Rust can and should be used for parts of the VM, but a full<br>
rewrite would be suicide, especially considering BEAM development does<br>
not have gigantic resources to begin with.<br>
<br>
Even if you rewrite only parts of the VM, while you're rewriting you're<br>
not improving the features stack.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Loïc Hoguin<br>
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