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Why Rust is worse than C for programming low-level hw

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Re: Why Rust is worse than C for programming low-level hw

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C is an abstraction layer for assembler, created at a time when software people were very close to the hardware. Not surprising that it works very well for those use cases. Recent languages tend to come from the other direction.

C is a high level programming language
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