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A comment on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009). Parent comment

Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by mark-r on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:57PM (#24456978)
Or at least not in Torvalds' lifetime. His views on replacements for C are legendary. It would be interesting to see his comments on this proposal.
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Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009) by ratww on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:28PM (#24457156)
Torvalds himself might have a different opinion:

People have been looking at that for years now. I’m convinced it’s going to happen one day. It might not be Rust, but it’s going to happen that we will have different models for writing these kinds of things

https://thenewstack.io/linus-torvalds-on-diversity-longevity...

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