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There is a huge amount of C programs and libraries that were written in C because back then it was the best tool for the job. A lot of people are not convinced
by phicoh 3y ago
There is a huge amount of C programs and libraries that were written in C because back then it was the best tool for the job. A lot of people are not convinced about C++, but for many things that were written in C, Rust is now a good option. More and more people are asking questions about how C programs avoid memory errors. The easy solution is to switch to Rust for new programs and libraries.
Python has the problem that large Python programs are often awkward. There are many reasons for that. And somehow the Python community doesn't seem to be able to solve those issues. Rust is a lot better in that respect.
- frou_dh 3y agoMany of those random userspace C programs (i.e. stuff in the (1) manpage section) could have been rewritten in e.g. OCaml just fine ages ago, if only people were paying attention and not in the curly brace mind prison.