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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by mitchty on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:15PM (#20471316)
> There’s nothing intrinsic to rust that makes it better suited for “foundational components” over anywhere else in the stack.

Actually, there is, not having a GC means you can better reason about stack/heap memory usage. That matters for performance critical and things like embedded systems where you might not even use malloc() in c.

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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by arcticbull on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:46PM (#20472227)
I think I may not have phrased it well, I agree with you, it’s better than many other languages for low level software development. What I’m saying is there’s nothing that makes it worse for high-level software development.
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Re:Microsoft to Explore Using Rust by tracker1 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:02PM (#20475142)
Depends on how your mind works really... I know a lot of devs that cannot break out of C# class and enterprise app thinking. I happen to like JS for a lot of workflows. It really depends on mindset.

Been learning rust for a few months now and really enjoying it so far... waiting on the new async stuff to firm up a little before continuing.

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