A real BBS

Hello, /blog/. A thought just popped into my head and you all need to read about it.

What if someone (not me; I have better shit to do), set up a traditional BBS that required users to dial in, but had it used VoIP via google voice or some other free, mostly-anonymous service. Wouldn't that be neato. Further, full dialup internet access could be provided over the link. That would throw the NSA off for a bit maybe.

Well, off to bed.

>>11

isn't that the same as Sepples?

Sepples doesn't have RAII consideration built into the whole type system. Rust has a dedicated pass for ownership checking. It's much more thorough and reliable than what can be done with C++ templates, and it gives you better error messages as well.

Of course, that's not the whole story about Rust. There are basic niceties that make your code more easily portable, and give the optimizer more information to work with while not being a confusing pain in the ass to learn and maintain by hand like with const and restrict. Once Rust hits 1.5 or so, it's gonna be regularly beating C and C++ for speed. The developers are very serious about improving their tools, and they know their shit.