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Comment by skohan

3 hours ago

C/C++ is still relevant for HPC, where you want to carefully optimize memory management.

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skohan

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vlovich123  2 hours ago

Hate to break it to you but Rust is equally capable of doing all the same memory management optimizations.

  • skohan  2 hours ago

    I mean you can, but C/C++ is way more ergonomic for dealing with memory layouts.

    • Philpax  2 hours ago

      Is it? How so?

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