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by account4mypc 1775 days ago
I wonder if there is another way to partially explain these results:

- many (most?) programmers were taught C/C++ for several decades

- some programmers taught themselves rust because they were driven and interested

- these rust programmers are probably better programmers on average

- they wrote (or would write) better code that is somewhat elegant. and they have the advantage of starting with code that has had its memory bugs fixed over the last few decades

So I wonder if you had taught the masses rust starting in the 1980s... would the masses have found other way to write buggy/crappy code?

(I realize this could sound a bit condescending; fwif I did not teach myself rust so i'm not counting myself in the 'better' group)