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Rewriting Rust

The Rust programming language feels like a first generation product. You know what I mean. Like the first iPhone - which was amazing by the way. They made an entire operating system around multitouch. A smart phone with no keyboard. And a working web browser. Within a few months, we

Now, there are issue threads like this, in which 25 smart, well meaning people spent 2 years and over 200 comments trying to figure out how to improve Mutex. I've heard the Fuchsia operating system project abandoned Rust for C++ in some parts because of how impossibly complex Pin makes everything. Even adding security capabilities would require a new rust edition, since it introduces a new way that crates can break semver compatibility.

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