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saghmtoday at 12:02 AM1 replyview on HN

It sounds like you're saying that you consider seeing this single instance of someone writing a library with a costly abstraction to be indicative of the entire language ecosystem not fitting the paradigm. This is kind of hard to take seriously; it's not like C++ doesn't have some costly abstractions as well way more embedded into the language itself (e.g. exceptions).


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zephentoday at 2:26 AM

> someone writing a library with a costly abstraction

That's not what happened here.

> it's not like C++ doesn't have some costly abstractions

This is simultaneously both completely orthogonal to my observation that the Rust FFI is borked, and a great example of a problem that wouldn't happen in C++, because in C++ you could completely ignore the costly abstractions if necessary.

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