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Rust is not a replacement for Python, but a replacement for C. It's exciting that you can have power, portability and speed competitive with C, but with syntax

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Rust is not a replacement for Python, but a replacement for C. I think its a mistake to view any language as simply a 1:1 replacement for an existing language. Newer languages can have the greatest strength in an area currently dominated by one older language (say, Rust with C), and still be better for some applications where another older language would generally be preferred to the first (say, Rust being better than Python at some things where Python would generally be preferred over C.)
• nwmcsween 12y ago
  Rust is a replacement for C++ not C