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Flattening Rust’s learning curve

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451 points birdculture | 1 comments | 13 May 25 22:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source
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jmull ◴[14 May 25 13:59 UTC] No.43984646[source]▶
I'm not sure there are many cases where I would choose rust. I'm open to it. I just think in any given situation there would most likely be a better option.

Perhaps it will become prevalent enough that it will make sense in the future.

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1. toprerules ◴[14 May 25 15:17 UTC] No.43985593[source]▶
As systems programmer there are no better options. C is inherently unsafe, C++ is awful to work with and unsafe without careful use of pre-made safe abstractions that can't catch everything at runtime...

I have written C for decades and love the language, but Rust has convinced me that we need to evolve beyond the 70s. There's no excuse anymore.