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Re:Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [... by maccard on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:49AM (#27854244)
What makes you think that rust is a long term replacement for c++? I'm neither a rustacean or a dogmatic c++ follower, but it'd pretty clear to me right now that rust isn't going to replace C++.

There is so much inertia in the field with both existing projects and new projects being written on C++, what seems more likely is you end up with a split akin to C vs C++

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Re:Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [... by secondcoming on Friday July 16, 2021 @07:47AM (#27855285)
The success of Rust in industry depends on how it fares in the Linux kernel, IMO. C++ was never even considered for that.

If I was a young dev learning a systems language for the first time, I'd most likely pick rust.

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Re:Thriving in a Crowded and Changing World: C++ 2006–2020 [... by maccard on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:41AM (#27856130)
C++ isn't exclusively a systems level language either though, lets be clear. Assuming rust eats all the existing C code in the various kernels (MacOS, BSD, Linux, Windows), that wouldn't mean it's replaced C++ at all - it would have replaced C.
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