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by pizza234 1328 days ago
> because I never talked with anyone who doesn't casts stones to C & C++ and badmouths it while saying that Rust is the one, and only, and the last savior we need.

I do definitely cast stones on C/++, especially considering that a C project I've rewritten in Rust uncovered several memory safety issues from the very first run. Another C project I've approached also showed C-specific issues from the very beginning.

On the other hand, I don't define Rust and the savior and so on; to be specific, memory safety is a very serious issue, but not the only one, and memory safe languages solve a very serious issue, but not all the issues. Additionally, I think Rust is a niche language; other memory safe languages may be more productive for the majority of the use cases ("webcrap", like a famous software engineer described :)).

Now you know one!