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		UncleMeat on Feb 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust started as a personal project in 2006 Why Rust instead of C or C++ if you don’t want the borrow checker? That’s the whole thing that makes it superior to alternatives!

antifa on Feb 13, 2022 [–]

The goal is to abstract away the borrow checker for the business logic of software I write, not for the borrow checker to be absent from a rust compiler.

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