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Once you have Wasm, it gets you everywhere and the best path to Wasm is Rust.

But Rust is unreadable compared to reasonably well written C. It matters if you care to read any of the code yourself and/or want to retain the ability to make manual changes. There is a reason C hasn't been displaced after all this time.

What an odd statement. Unreadable code is unreadable regardless of language. I’ve seen my fair share of unreadable C. Indeed Rust can be ugly in advanced use cases with heavy syntax but C’s simpler syntax does not mean it is always readable either. Hell, I've seen unreadable Python and Lua!

C has in fact been displaced in many places. Just because it survives in a few holdout contexts is a historical artifact more than a testament to the language.

Funny in a thread that started with `increasingly makes sense for compile times`

Fine, I'll make a fast rust compiler.

Rust with no deps and a single compilation unit is already fast.

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