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by SAI_Peregrinus 1107 days ago
Yes, I suppose "small" might be clearer than "simple". C is simple partly because of how little of what a computer can do it actually defines. That makes it more difficult to use, but the well-defined language is quite simple. Safe Rust tries to define all of that, so you can do everything the underlying processor is capable of, and becomes far more complex in return.