Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust

Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by steveklabnik on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @03:56PM (#14756048)

If C was able to encode Rust's semantics around references, you wouldn't need Rust in the first place.

You might be able to get it to work sometimes for a very simple subset. I'd be extremely skeptical that it'd be very useful, though.

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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by dllthomas on Thursday July 13, 2017 @01:52AM (#14759014)

I agree with "sometimes, for a very simple subset" but I think there's a good chance that can still be very useful. A lot of uses just are super simple, and that may be obvious to the computer in cases that aren't obvious to the human. If we can remove the need for the human to reason about those, that can be a big help.

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