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by adastra22 263 days ago
At the time that Rist was created, C/C++ and Java were pretty much the only industry standard languages.
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No, even by 2010, Javascript, PHP, and Python would have all already surpassed C and C++ by number of professional programmers in industry.
None of those are systems languages.
The parent's claim wasn't about systems languages.
It was about C/C++ and Rust, both of which are systems languages.