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> As the roadmap says "Production use measures our design success; it's the ultimate reality check." I agree with that.

C (and later C++) became popular because Unix was successful. Safe systems programming and safe browsers are nice to have but not completely safe if the underlying OS is unsafe (Windows in particular). Rust's "killer app" would be a safe OS. The first attempt (Redox) is already there.




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