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And those absolute decaration absolutely never are wrong, also those who calim that Rust is a C/C++ killer are the same that claim C/C++ are obsolete and dead languages i.e. frontend devs, webdevs, etc. I've never heard those claims from Rust dev teams or someone seriously working in Rust; in fact I've heard more about how to integrate C/C++ existing code, which by the way was the main goal from the start with Firefox, project that is now adding Rust to their existing codebase. I don't think anyone serious thinks that Rust is gonna replace them, who thinks the entire Linux kernel will be rewritten anytime soon is crazy, maybe never will, but new modules may be written in Rust in the future. Ruby and Python didn't born dead even when PHP and Perl had almost 100% of the web market; the fact that all the C/C++ codebase won't be replaced by Rust means nothing, is like saying that laptops born dead because we already had desktops or smartphones borne dead because of laptops, or electric cars are dead because of gas. To me the quora answers comes from a frustrated C/C++ programmer somehow envious of the Rust popularity and takes too serious and personal unfounded claims of the "dead of C"