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Re:Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim? by Artemis2 on Saturday November 08, 2014 @01:28PM (#8577711)
Your OS is written in C/C++. When you know what you are doing, these languages are not harmful.
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Re:Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim? by gnusouth on Monday November 10, 2014 @12:49AM (#8582195)
Yeah, and every third boot my display manager segfaults :P

I know it's possible to write good systems software in C/C++, I just think writing in Rust is a marked improvement.

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