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Re:Linux Rust Support by pjmlp on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:56AM (#27747196)
Actually you could have achieved most of that with Ada, Modula-2, Mesa/Cedar, Object Pascal, but we had to wait for the pendulum to get back.
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Re:Linux Rust Support by dthul on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:22AM (#27748149)
I agree that Rust, besides its technical excellence based on all of these prior languages, also hit a sweet spot with its timing.
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Re:Linux Rust Support by deviledeggs on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:07PM (#27752173)
Oh definitely. Rust was the first to be trendy enough to get traction though. I'm not bashing previous attempts to replace c.

Dependency management, packaging, and testing are what really made Rust take off. The best of any language I've used.

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