
Rust <=> C++
CppCast
05/18/24
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Mara Bos joins Phil and Timur. Mara talks to us about her work on the Rust evolution team and how she uses embedded Rust for drone flight controllers. We chat about some of the differences and similarities between C++ and Rust, and what the two languages can, and should, learn from each other.
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- GCC 14 released
- "An informal comparison of the three major implementations of std::string" (updated) - Raymond Chen
- BugInsight – New memory leak and deadlock finder for C and C++ on Windows
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