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by icedchai 436 days ago
That's nice, but a couple of Rust rewrites are not proof of a general trend.

I've been working with C for over 30 years, both professionally and a hobbyist. I have experimented with Rust but not done anything professionally with it. My gut feel is Rust is too syntactically and conceptually complex to be a practical C replacement. C++ is also has language complexity issues, however it can be adopted piecemeal and applied to most existing C code.
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koakuma-chan 436 days ago
> My gut feel is Rust is too syntactically and conceptually complex to be a practical C replacement.

That would depend on what you use C for. But I sure can imagine people complain that Rust gets in the way of their prototyping while their C code is filled with UB and friends.

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koakuma-chan 436 days ago
> That's nice, but a couple of Rust rewrites are not proof of a general trend.

It’s not just a couple. We’ve seen virtually all JS tooling migrate to Rust, and there is many more things but I can’t remember by name.

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