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Re:On the history and justification of the C programming lan... by fulafel on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:01AM (#12318049)
If you look at big C++ apps like Firefox or AAA games, most of the third party libraries are used through C apis. Even commercial libraries written in C++ often have C based APIs because of historical binary compatibility problems in C++ linking. Is safely wrapping a C api in C++ significantly easier than wrapping it in Rust?

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