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Re:Best aspects of C by bluecalm on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:59PM (#25128875)
Rust has a terrible, verbose syntax and solves a problem that is a non issue in many applications where C shines while making ordinary things difficult (like recursive data structures).

I am sure it has its place but I think it's just too ugly to be attractive. There is something pleasing about writing C, Python or even Javascript which you will never get with Rust. It will never be a language a lot of people enjoy writing imo.

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Re:Best aspects of C by arcticbull on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:37PM (#25130231)
Ugly is a matter of opinion of course, but once you start to write it you get a sense of what "looks good" and what "looks bad" and you start to write nice looking Rust if you want to. I can show you some powerful ugly C haha.
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