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Re:Rust newcomers are 70x less likely to create vulnerabilit... by oneshtein on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:47AM (#38202575)
Rust can be used as C, because it has pointers, like C. However, Rust has better syntax, more syntax sugar, automatic memory management, automatic memory manager and borrow checker. So, Rust is simpler than C to learn.
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Re:Rust newcomers are 70x less likely to create vulnerabilit... by usrbinbash on Saturday November 11, 2023 @08:17AM (#38230052)
> However, Rust has better syntax

Better by what metric?

> more syntax sugar

More features and syntactic concepts don't make a language easier to learn.

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