The more philosophical answer is that after C (circa 1960) there have been lots of developments in programming languages, both translated and compiled. Rust is epochal in that it takes all the best features and has the right defaults based on 50 years experience. Most notably it is the first language which understands the code it is compiling, and is thus able to see errors and make deep optimizations...

[–] khleedril@cyberplace.social 5 points 3 days ago

@chronicledmonocle @cm0002 ... given all that, it just makes sense to systematically rewrite everything that exists in C as Rust. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.

[–] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Most notably it is the first language which understands the code it is compiling

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