I was replying to this bit > difference between C++ and C is that the former is a large multi-paradigm language, while the latter is a minimalist language. The

I was replying to this bit > difference between C++ and C is that the former is a large multi-paradigm language, while the latter is a minimalist language. These are completely different axes. > There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe. Edit: oh, I never read the last bit "and memory safe" -- well ya, that's kind of rust's major advantage.