Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:35PM (#43442209)

Partly because some of its advocates say things like:

> it's a vastly better language than C

when they could just say "it has some important features that C does not have and likely will never have".

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Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by kouteiheika on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:17PM (#43443075)

I don't follow. So you think it cannot be possibly a vastly better language than C, and the only reason people are saying that is because of the hype?

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Re:Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default by dmitrygr on Friday March 21, 2025 @11:44PM (#43443255)

"Better" implies an unambiguous "goodness" metric, which does not exist. People who still use such language are thus implying that their opinion and their definition of "good" is the only correct one.

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