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The cool kids are forcing people to read this at gunpoint nowadays
I like Go better
However, C is still king in a lot of ways
C is definitely still king, but I wonder if crABI will eventually be able to dethrone it:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/111423
If they can define a useful ABI that manages to include lifetimes, that might just be enough of an improvement to get people to switch over from assuming the C ABI everywhere.
Still remains to be seen if a potential rust ABI can avoid becoming a chain to the wall the way the C++ ABI seems to have become. When a lot of C++ers apparently agree with "I'm tired of paying for an ABI stability I'm not using" it's not so clear it would really be a boon to Rust.
That said
no_stdappears to be what people go to for the lean Rust.And a lot of us are happy not having to juggle shared dependencies, but instead having somewhat fat but self-contained binaries. It's part of the draw of Go too; fat binaries come up as a way to avoid managing e.g. Python dependencies across OS-es. With Rust and Go you can build just one binary per architecture/libc and be done with it.