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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by tjoff on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:41AM (#23802524)
Maybe that has more to do with almost everything new have been garbage collected for the last decades (and that is such a tragedy) and less to do with C++.

It is a low-level programming language after all. Not being explicit about memory would be a bad thing (it almost always is).

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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by umanwizard on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:07AM (#23802704)
I was under the impression that RAII specifically (as opposed to manually calling malloc and free by hand) was an innovation of C++, but I could be wrong.
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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by pjmlp on Saturday July 11, 2020 @12:26PM (#23803316)
Ada and Object Pascal also have it.
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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by tjoff on Saturday July 11, 2020 @11:49AM (#23803052)
Don't know, but the concept is very useful and has found its way into many languages, such as thr using statement in C#.

It is just that it is typically more useful/powerful in languages that lack a GC (doesn't necessarily need to be that way though, but my impression).

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Re:Linux kernel in-tree Rust support by pjmlp on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:40PM (#23806290)
C# using is Common Lisp's with-....
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