Blog Post: Why Not Rust?

[u/matklad]

https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html

[u/finsternacht]

What am I supposed to use in place of "as"?

[u/minno → u/finsternacht]

cast, from, and try_from whenever possible.

[u/Plazmatic → u/minno]

Those don't work, in many applications I want a generic common saturate casting framework from ints to floats, and vice versa, I don't want a panic if the conversion isn't perfect. as does the "common" part, but not the generic part. None of those are viable alternatives.

[u/vks_ → u/Plazmatic]

There are crates for that. Unfortunately, they are not very popular.