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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by vmchale on Friday June 12, 2020 @01:49PM (#23501761)
> Industry really, really needed C-like language that was memory safe, and all-round good: both low and high level. And Rust quickly delivered that

Well, almost. I'm not sure I like unsafe FFI and other bits.

> Personally, at some point Rust was just clearly better and after a while - I lost interest in D. I don't have time to keep track of D catching up

Yup. Better to use Rust if it's the one introducing the features.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? by bigjake on Sunday June 21, 2020 @09:26PM (#23596691)
Support for unsafe constructs is almost critical to a languages success. There are certain things that just cannot be done safely, and any language that wants to be considered a systems language needs some method of providing that functionality. Usually native unsafe support is the cleanest way to go.
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