Re: The Case for Rust (in any system)

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 07:39:09 UTC
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David Chisnall writes:
> On 8 Sep 2024, at 22:11, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

> > The logical progression of C++ adoption would start with using a C++
> > compiler as a better C compiler.
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> Compiling C as C++ will *normally* give the same output, but not always.

But do you agree that the C++ compiler's take on things make more sense
than the C compiler's in these cases ?

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