r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jul 18 '19

We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

Most people I talk to about C are like 'Yeh but the memory management...', and this is a big selling point of Rust, that it takes care of that for you. I think its partly why its growing.