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> Sure, rust is "safer" than C, but is it a better language? that's arguable. Obviously there are more aspects to a language than safety, so I'll give you that
by Aaargh20318 10y ago
> Sure, rust is "safer" than C, but is it a better language? that's arguable.
Obviously there are more aspects to a language than safety, so I'll give you that, but yes Rust is a better language than C in this aspect.
Don't forget that programming languages are meant for humans, not for computers. One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.
- macintux 10y ago> One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes. That clearly wasn't the case when C was designed.
- anp 10y agoI'd wager that using C prevents large classes of errors that would be common place in assembly. That said, colloquial history seems to say that there were plenty of languages which did a better job at that than C.