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A comment on Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust? by CamperBob2 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:04PM (#47433479)
A cyclical fad. A few years ago, it was golang. No one around here seems to care much about golang now, but back in the day, God help anyone who said anything negative about Go on HN.

It's too late for anything to replace C/C++ now. Programming is a robot's job, and the robot DGAF. One Turing-complete language is as good as another, all the better if there are a few trillion tokens' worth of it in-distribution.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone on HN obsessed with Rust? by imron on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:02PM (#47448335)
The robot _does_ gaf.

Rust's biggest selling point is that it turns runtime problems in to compile time problems.

Compile time problems are significantly easier and cheaper for robots (and humans) to solve.

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