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01HNNWZ0MV43FFlast Sunday at 12:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Today's experts are the novices of 40 years ago, and today's novices will be the experts in 40 years.

C and C++ don't require static analysis, and it's difficult to set up, and so most of us slide down the incentive gradient of using C / C++ without any helpers except CMake and gdb.

Rust requires it, so the noobies use it, so in 40 years the experts will accept it.


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ranger_dangerlast Sunday at 3:25 AM

> it's difficult to set up

Is it though? I've only ever had to run "scan-build make" for my projects and it spits out a full folder of HTML pages that details any static analysis issues, and I didn't have to change my build system at all.

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