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What makes you think that rust is a long term replacement for c++? I'm neither a rustacean or a dogmatic c++ follower, but it'd pretty clear to me right now tha
by maccard 5y ago
What makes you think that rust is a long term replacement for c++? I'm neither a rustacean or a dogmatic c++ follower, but it'd pretty clear to me right now that rust isn't going to replace C++.
There is so much inertia in the field with both existing projects and new projects being written on C++, what seems more likely is you end up with a split akin to C vs C++
- secondcoming 5y agoThe success of Rust in industry depends on how it fares in the Linux kernel, IMO. C++ was never even considered for that. If I was a young dev learning a systems language for the first time, I'd most likely pick rust.
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- maccard 5y agoC++ isn't exclusively a systems level language either though, lets be clear. Assuming rust eats all the existing C code in the various kernels (MacOS, BSD, Linux, Windows), that wouldn't mean it's replaced C++ at all - it would have replaced C.