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Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again by mrob on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @08:36AM (#43342560)
The best feature of C is the inconvenience of managing dependencies. This encourages a healthy mistrust of third-party code. Rust is unfortunately bundled with an excellent package manager, so it's already well on its way to NPM-style dependency hell.
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Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again by codr7 on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @09:18AM (#43342941)
It's also very mature, not so much of a moving target.

Both aspects are something I think many developers grow to appreciate eventually.

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Re:I stopped everything and started writing C again by kelnos on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:30PM (#43346253)
Can't help but agree, as much as I prefer Rust over C.

On the other hand, C definitely goes too far in to the opposite extreme. I am very tired of reinventing wheels in C because integrating third-party dependencies is even more annoying than writing and maintaining my own versions of common routines.

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