Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems programming language?

Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by flukus on Monday April 10, 2017 @11:00PM (#14084509)

I think it's too early to tell if rust will prove any better in the real world, which includes things like devs using unsafe sections to cope with time pressures.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by mmstick on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @05:13PM (#14092502)

Use of unsafe in Rust is not required or recommended in most, if not all situations. That said, auditing a handful of small unsafe blocks is easier than auditing an entire project.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by kbenson on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:37PM (#14093151)

The question then is whether large chunks in unsafe is still better than the entire program in the equivalent of unsafe (C).

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