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benrbray on Sept 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust 2021: GUI

Care to elaborate? AFAIK C/C++ emerged as the alternative to Pascal way back when. No sense moving backwards--it's clear Rust is on track to displace several common uses for C/C++.

pjmlp on Sept 30, 2020 [–]

UNIX, like the browser for JavaScript, helped a bit the alternative to win against the competition.

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