> Rust already has warts from bad API designs that constrains performance and they are unlikely to ever be fixed even with new editions.
Like what?
> Aliasing has yet to provide any real benefit for Rust and a hell of a lot of issues.
Yeah, the performance wins so far are quite small. But rust's noalias-by-default did unearth a whole lot of latent bugs in LLVM. Even if you don't care about rust, its great that rust led LLVM to track down and fix these bugs. They affected C/C++ code too.
> realistically anyplace that aliasing matter c/c++ will just drop __restrict on it.
Is there a way to tell? When I'm writing C, I have no idea if using restrict will help other than staring at the assembly. (Or just trying it). I'm also leery of using restrict in C because its so hard to audit callers. How do you know when restrict is safe?