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0 pointssramsay6y ago0 comments

I'm pretty happy with C as it is, but I will admit to being surprised that a "minimalistic Rust" hasn't risen to prominence.

I guess what I mean by that is a language that has Rust's hyperactive, strongly opinionated compiler, borrow checker, no NULL, immutable by default, etc, but in a language that is no more syntactically ambitious that C89. I would be way more into a language like that than Rust.

A language that sort of feels like Go, but can actually be used for low-level systems programming.

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Leherenn6y ago

I think it's going to arrive, but some time is needed to see what works in Rust or not. D is going this way as well, so should provide another data point.

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