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Ask HN: Why is there not a memory-safe C?

I'm going through a lot of "Why Rust?" reading material, and starting to wonder why is there no memory safe subset of C?

While going through Rust tutorials, I'm realizing how much more sophisticated Rust gets than C in terms of the language. So many syntactical things to remember.

Could there be a less powerful subset of C that we can use in situations where we're not building operating systems or distributed systems?

43 points reacharavindh 8 years ago 89 comments

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