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Thomas Hansen

Rust is probably amazing. However, the reason why people love it is because they tend to come from C++, which of course is garbage insanity defined. When you realize you can drop C++ and use Rust, it seems a hundred times better than what it actually is. Just my 2 cents …

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

I think that's right: the C++ devs were used to sacrifice everything that make our jobs simpler, clearer and safer in the name of peak performance. Then they hear there is a language that offer peak performance as well. They finally accept to switch and discover what they had been missing all along from modern programming languages.