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Rust lacunae

Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 22:52 UTC (Sat) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: Rust lacunae by khim
Parent article: Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust

You are the first simultaneous Rust promoter and C apologist I have encountered. You might be all alone in the world.

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Rust lacunae

Posted Jun 12, 2021 23:22 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Why? C is a de-facto systems language (duh), and Rust is the only modern-ish alternative. I believe that C++ can be used as well, but it has way too many drawbacks to justify rewrite of low-level systems in C++.


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