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> But the major players do seem to be happy to replace their C++ code with Rust.

Because incremental improvements don't provide enough value. A stable C++ codebase is best left untouched. It's not worth to rewrite C++ into C++++ to get a couple of features that are flawed retrofits backported from modern languages. In the end you still have C++.

parent pornel 2 months ago

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