• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Issue is, Rust is not a drop-in replacement for C. The memory safety features are just one part, and since Rust is also a “weakly” functional language, thus its prefered to write such code with it.

    • lad@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Anything that is drop-in replacement for C (or C++ for that matter) is going to be awful because of the same compatibility burden, imo

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, it’s not a small change. If there was a simpler way to make C memory-safe, it would have been done decades ago. It’s just a different language too, which is fair given how much younger it is.