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sanderjd on May 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++

Yep, this article is a good example of one way that c++ is bad, but it's not really a great example of rust being particularly good; many other languages support this well. I'm very glad Rust is one of those languages though!

groos on May 7, 2025 [–]

I had the same thought - what Matt's examples required was strong typing and that has existed for very long time outside of the C family world.

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