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Rust doesn't automatically add memory safety to all existing C code, which will need to be maintained for decades, Fil-C nearly does and its still early days.

> We have an alternative that isn't 10x slower, and comes with many other benefits

Anyone involved with development around a fruity company would say Swift ;)



I don't get the impression the Swift team is especially interested in use cases outside of OS X and iOS. (The context here is Debian.)


There seems to be a push to get Swift outside of just Apples platforms, namely Linux and Android support and backend micro service developnent.



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