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Re:Ask HN: What is preventing rust from replacing c/c++? by AstralStorm on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @12:43PM (#14797979)
Even when you do rewrite, there has to be a clear benefit. Rust does not offer a clear one.

(No, reducing amount of bugs does not do anything when pitted against well tested mature software that already exists.)

Re:Ask HN: What is preventing rust from replacing c/c++? by mmstick on Thursday July 20, 2017 @02:47AM (#14810484)
Rust does much more than reducing bugs. It is able to reduce memory consumption, decrease the required amount of CPU cycles, and increase maintainability / adaptability. ADTs aren't a joke, and neither is Cargo, move semantics by default, and the borrow checker / borrowing and ownership mechanics as a whole. Shipping solutions in Rust can be done at record speeds, and integrate with existing software. Rust is wildly successful, and there's no way of stopping it.