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Rust doesn't try to be a C replacement. It's a great C++ replacement, for big performance-critical projects: Mozilla Firefox code was written in C++, not in C.

• mem32 6y ago
  How can Rust hope to replace C++ when it in fact depends on LLVM?
  • lmm 6y ago
    Because Rust is a viable language for writing LLVM-like programs in (whether by writing a new replacement or rewriting LLVM gradually).