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The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IIRC They were also trying to get kernel devs to let official structure definitions live in Rust instead of C, and got upset when they didn't want to do that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

the rust devs wanted to CREATE official structure definitions that don’t exist in C so that there was more semantic meaning to the APIs