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by PoignardAzur 1842 days ago
Prompt: What's the deal with Rust?

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Are you interested in hearing about the coolest new language of 2018? Well, Rust might be the one to check out. Rust is more or less an evolution of C++. But Rust is also a radically different design.

C++ is still used in the majority of real-world applications today. With that in mind, what makes Rust so special?

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To me, C++ is the way to go. Rust is not a perfect language. Rust will not be used in every software.

With C++11 and C++17, the language is starting to get better. New libraries are being created in a rapid way and the language is evolving. With the language used to build web applications, you can easily forget that the language is rather old.

I like Rust a lot, but I see it as a tool. I don't think Rust can replace C++. That doesn't make it a bad thing. In fact, I think that we should replace C++ with Rust, as we did with C. The "new" language that we are using for building web applications is not a new language, but rather Rust.

There is no good reason not to use Rust instead of C++. Today, C