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Re:What is Rust and why is it so popular? by vperez on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:02PM (#22108748)
Great article. One nitpick:

> One of the biggest benefits of using a systems programming language is the ability to have control over low-level details.

I think this is a misguided conflation of "systems programming" and "low-level programming", those are separate things. See http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/

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Re:What is Rust and why is it so popular? by calibas on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @12:20PM (#22108960)
Ah, the eternal argument over what qualifies as "low-level". I think we can all agree it's not Javascript, but beyond that opinions vary greatly and it's mainly a semantic issue.
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Re:What is Rust and why is it so popular? by ncmncm on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:17AM (#22117687)
With current languages, we should speak more about range.

C++'s and Rust's ranges stretch from C's at the bottom up to near ML's. Java is stuck in a little space in the middle.

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