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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by djur on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:03AM (#30424507)
malloc is also an abstraction.
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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by skohan on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:05AM (#30424829)
I never said C is without abstraction, only that it is a relatively thin abstraction. Are you seriously arguing that Rust is not at a higher level of abstraction than C?
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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by littlestymaar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:39AM (#30426238)
> Are you seriously arguing that Rust is not at a higher level of abstraction than C?

Rust is clearly not at a higher level of abstraction than C++, yet in your own argument you've put C and C++ on the same ground…

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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by skohan on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @08:24AM (#30427593)
No I haven't. I said Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction.
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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by littlestymaar on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:19AM (#30428175)
Yet a few comments above in this thread[1]:

> I feel it's missing the quality from C/C++ that they are a very thin abstraction over assembly.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419248

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Re:Chris Lattner left Swift core team by skohan on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @05:34PM (#30434836)
I also said this:

> Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction, but C is much, much simpler.

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