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>It's just spam at this point.

Yes, Can we be honest about this.

Promoting Rust by attacking C or other legacy languages that do not have equivalent memory safety is simply not constructive dialogue. Whenever the subject comes up concerning C/C++, or vulnerabilities discovered in common software packages someone always shows up to gripe about lack of memory safety in other language and then regurgitate the same litany of Rust vs C/C++ talking points. It gets old and it's not helping win over the developers the Rust community needs if they actually want to re-write the millions of lines code from the many open source projects to fix these problems.

The handful of Rust bros who show up to condemn C/C++ at every opportunity just make the Rust proponents look like a bunch of elitists, which is not fair to Rust or the community.



> want to re-write the millions of lines code from the many open source projects

just nitpicking

it's billions.

at one LOC per second it would take 11.6 days to rewrite one million of them, but 32 years to rewrite a billion of them.




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