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Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by steveklabnik on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:26PM (#20821281)
As a Windows user, the Rust ecosystem feels far more portable than any other ecosystem I've used; I run into issues extremely rarely, even though most people are on Mac OS or Linux. (Our last survey did show ~30% of people using Windows, though.)
Re:Rust is the future, C is the new Assembly: Josh Triplett ... by burntsushi on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @12:37PM (#20821382)
Yeah this is a big benefit that is undersold. If I were in the C or C++ ecosystem, I probably wouldn't be able to support Windows as well as I do. It would be too much work. The foundations on which Rust's standard library are built means I can regularly go through entire release cycles without opening my Windows laptop to test anything. Which saves a lot of context switching overhead for me personally.