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Re:AMD has put an SSD on a graphics card by pjmlp on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:34AM (#12170545)
Anything that increases our dependency on C is bad.

I find interesting that a Rust designer thinks otherwise.

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Re:AMD has put an SSD on a graphics card by floatboth on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:44AM (#12171992)
Anything that increases our dependency on C++ is much, much worse.

You can easily call into something with a C ABI (er, OS ABI designed around C, or whatever is the correct technical name) from any language. Try that with C++ :D

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Re:AMD has put an SSD on a graphics card by pjmlp on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:33AM (#12172573)
No problem on Windows thanks to .NET and COM.

C++ provides better tools to write safer code than C ever will.

I would rather be using Ada, Rust, System C#, D, <whatever safe systems programming language>, but until OS vendors start providing something else, C++17 will have to do.

Since 1994 I only write C code when forced to do so.

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