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Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety by pjmlp on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:59PM (#14562144)
In 2017.

C wasn't that portable in the 80's and 90's, with all its flavous across CP/M, MS-DOS, 8-bit home micros, mainframes, ...

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Re:System programming in Rust: beyond safety by jeffdavis on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:20PM (#14562956)
The difference is that one could reasonably write a C compiler in assembly, and use that to bootstrap a better C compiler if desired.

Writing a rust compiler in assembly might be challenging.

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