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apitman ◴[07 Dec 25 05:40 UTC] No.46179418[source]▶

>>46178442 (OP) #

I use Rust and C at work. I quite enjoy Rust, but I currently have no reason to believe C won't outlive it, by a lot.

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hu3 ◴[07 Dec 25 06:46 UTC] No.46179713[source]▶

>>46179418 #

And I think Zig will gradually eat a large piece of the C pie that would otherwise be eaten by Rust.

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1. pjmlp ◴[07 Dec 25 06:48 UTC] No.46179729[source]▶

>>46179713 #

I doubt it, unless it sorts out its use after free issues, embraces binary distribution used in commercial world, and gets adoption by an OS vendor.

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2. Zambyte ◴[07 Dec 25 15:56 UTC] No.46182618[source]▶

>>46179729 (TP) #

You can create and link to shared objects and create statically or dynamically linked executables. What more could you want on "embracing binary distribution"?

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