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Re: "I tried out Hare shortly after it was publicly announced..."
I've never given Go an honest try to be perfectly honest, largely due to it's affiliation with Google but probably moreso because it relies on garbage collection. That said, I recognize that it's added to the space. I'm pretty sure 'defer' originated there before spreading to zig and others.
I write a lot of Rust though. Agreed that it's syntax takes some adjustment. What I'm coming to realize about Rust though, is that a language like Hare gets you the majority of Rust's advantages just by having strong typing and bounded arrays, at a fraction of the complexity and size. There are definite tradeoffs, but I think that they're smart ones.
2023-08-19 · 3 weeks ago
While I have taken an interest in Hare, I have so far failed to see why I should use it over C.
2023-08-24 · 2 weeks ago
Honestly, in a lot of cases there probably isn't a good reason to do so. Particularly if you're comfortable in C. I do like certain features, and in particular it has actual error handling at the language level, but both are sufficiently minimalist that they're largely interchangeable. Which gives C the edge just based on portability.
Still, I think it's a good design and I'm glad it exists.
I tried out Hare shortly after it was publicly announced and found it pretty cool then, but haven't gone back to it again until recently. It's got a really minimalist ethos, which I really like. I did have to patch the port on FreeBSD to get it to work there, but it was a single line added to config.mk. Hopefully the maintainer will act on it quickly. Dr Brian Callahan has it working on OpenBSD as well. It only supports open source operating systems, which I find I like. Currently working on...
💬 jeang3nie · 4 comments · 2 likes · 2023-07-19 · 7 weeks ago