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And just like in Metal Gear, he dies of old age if you wait a bit.
C is old, ubiquitous and still does not have a good replacement for its low-level cross-platform usecases, so I'll believe it when I see it π
Rust is doing a very decent job of low-level cross platform. C just has a very long history.
Rust wonβt replace c.
The programs are too bloated for many embedded systems where every byte counts because itβs in ROM or loaded jnto IRAM
All that memory safety and garbage collection, for example, comes at a big cost
I don't think Rust has a garbage collector.