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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by nicoburns on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @10:02AM (#22684578)
It's true that a lot of PHP/Python/Go programmers look to Rust rather than C++ when getting into performance-oriented code. But it's not really a stepping stone, because you never have to leave.

It's true that not a lot of people are using Rust for embedded software. That's a much harder nut to crack because so many of the toolchains are proprietary (and embedded support in Rust is still missing quite a few things).

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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by otabdeveloper2 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:09PM (#22696788)
> ...because you never have to leave.

You kind of do if you ever want to work on anything other than pet personal one-man projects.

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Re:Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang by nicoburns on Thursday March 26, 2020 @03:52PM (#22697233)
Not for technical reasons though.

Also: I've used Rust at work. In fact, I learnt Rust because I was processing a lot of data at work, and needed a fast language to do so in a reasonable amount of time.

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