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Looks like it's basically Rust without the ownership, borrow checking, and a few other things. Think of C/Go(?) with a rust syntax, and a few more higher level things like boundary checking, unicode support, etc (I'm aware Go has unicode support, I mean C).

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Rust provides a good solution to C++ legacy cruft, complexity, undefined behavior, data races and provides some nice new language features like ADTs, traits, etc. I find it ties the language feature together with a beautiful and well thought out syntax.

Still, because of tooling, direct C++ interop and familiarity we would have stuck with C++. The killer feature that elevates Rust above everything else - and made us switch - is the borrow checker.

Mind if I ask who "we" is? I love hearing feedback from groups of people using Rust from their own projects, and at the moment I'm especially interested in people using Rust for their jobs. Feel free to send me an email to the address in my profile if you'd like to continue this discussion without derailing this thread.

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