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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by Aeolun on Friday June 12, 2020 @07:43AM (#23498246)
> Why would you throw all of that overboard

Firstly, because 75% of all that knowledge is easily transferrable.

Secondly, because you want to take 50% of your bug count.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by zucker42 on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:03AM (#23499947)
He was saying this in the context of "why do people still use C++ at all".
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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by bjourne on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:11AM (#23498846)
But why not program in Python and take 100% of your bug count?
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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by UncleMeat on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:44AM (#23499709)
It is slow.

It doesn’t work well for embedded programming.

It very much does not fix all bugs, especially given lack of static type checking.

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