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Comment by pron

4 hours ago

Neither has been battle-tested at the relevant scale.

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Philpax  4 hours ago

What kind of scale are you thinking of?

  • pron  4 hours ago

    By the time C++ and Java were as old as Rust is today there were thousands of programs that over 1MLOC that had been maintained for at least five years. Rust is a rather old language, yet I doubt there are even hundreds of Rust programs over 1MLOC.

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