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Millions of dollars in marketing? 1.0 was released in 2015. Yeah, it will take a couple years more before a 6 year old language will replace a 40 year old language, but we'll get there no doubt.

But that's not the right comparison. The use of the C language itself is a rounding error compared to all the languages that replaced it. Java, C#, C++, Python, Javascript, Go, they all replaced most use cases of C in modern programming. Rust is just attacking the last vestiges of C's usefulness.




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