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by anand-bala 1897 days ago
I am not sure what you mean by "false abstractions" in this article. Could you cite some concrete examples in the article that support your claim?

The author isn't claiming to go into a deep dive into C or C++. They are trying to talk about Rust. Your argument seems to be against the author's use of "C/C++" vs. "C and/or C++", which seems to me like some nitpicking, as the author uses "C/C++/Rust" later on. It isn't like they are pooling the languages as being the "same". Rather, they are talking about having similar, lower-level of control over "strings" as a data structure, as opposed to the primitives they seem to be in other high-level languages like C#, Python, Java, Go, Kotlin, Swift, or JavaScript.