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by saghm 608 days ago
I had the same reaction when reading that part, but it's worth noting that the article used this quote in the context of migration from C++ codebases to Rust, not as a critique of Rust in a vacuum. The next part of the quote clarifies this:

> These discrepancies are responsible for an impedance mismatch when interfacing the two languages. Most code generators for inter-language bindings aren’t able to represent features of one language in terms of the features of another.