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Linus Torvalds: Speaks on the Rust vs C Linux Divide
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Rust is harder to write but infinitely safer, and equivalent in speed.
It's harder to write because it forces you to be careful.
And because it looks like C, JavaScript, Bash and a few others all mixed up together.
I've heard Rust described as “Rust is what you get when you put all the good features of other programming languages together. You can't read it, but it's freaking fast!”
why does it look like bash?
Looking back on my comment, I don't know why I was thinking of Bash. It does look a lot like JavaScript/Typescript, and C.