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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by quotemstr on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @04:55AM (#11342953)
If Rust isn't suitable for C's niche, Rust's proponents should stop pitching Rust as a replacement for C.

> The Rust team made conscious design choices in full awareness of the trade-offs

I don't think that anyone who isn't already predisposed to avoid exceptions would consider the tradeoff the Rust people made to be the correct one.

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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by tatterdemalion on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @01:15PM (#11346368)
This is absurd. Most C applications do not need to persist through OOM errors, and has people have repeatedly reiterated, it is totally possible to write a Rust program that persists through OOM errors.
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