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A comment on Git's list of banned C functions. Parent comment

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:00PM (#26350327)
> I think for new code in environments that support newer standards C89 shouldn't be used

Why stop there? Don't use C. Use Rust!

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:11PM (#26351077)
Rust doesn't (yet) support all the targets C does. Mostly weird embedded stuff that needs it, and gccrs might solve that problem, but it's not always possible.

When it is possible, I certainly agree that Rust is nicer.

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