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Re:Should C Programmers Learn C++, Go or Rust? (2018) by dvhh on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @05:19AM (#19847754)
My guess is that these languages (C++, Rust) allow for far more optimizations as it is quite discouraged to reinvent the wheel.

Which is a unfortunately a thing in C

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Re:Should C Programmers Learn C++, Go or Rust? (2018) by bryal on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @06:51AM (#19848214)
One factor is how simple it is to use an efficient data-structure in Rust vs C due to good polymorphism and easy dependency management. In C, importing and using an efficient data structure can be a chore, and so many implementations use suboptimal but more C-friendly structures instead.
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