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		ben0x539 on March 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Speed of Rust vs. C I don't know if you are a minority, but Rust is available right now and C-but-with-Rust's-great-ideas isn't. As far as I know no one is working on C-but-with-Rust's-great-ideas, so I don't think it's a good strategy to wait around for it instead of using the tools that exist and are already used with great impact.

12thwonder on March 13, 2021 [–]

for new projects, sure. but when it comes to existing c/c++ projects, I'm not a big fan of rewriting everything.

ben0x539 on March 13, 2021 | [–]

I mean, it's probably infeasible to rewrite everything and it makes sense to focus on the cases where it'd have the greatest impact, sure.

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