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by qaq 2345 days ago
"My claim was that it is nothing out-of-ordinary". Well I guess will agree to disagree there are pretty prominent cases of very capable people trying to do a project in C++ and failing and then leveraging Rust and actually delivering.
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And it would be great to read about such projects. But I have not heard about such. Maybe I would change my opinion.
Mozilla namely: "By 2017, Mozilla had made two previous attempts to parallelize the style system using C++. Both had failed." but they were able to complete it in Rust.
I would be really surprised if they failed to do it with the language they invented.
They is not exactly same set of people