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		xfer on March 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I rewrote the mesh generator of Dust3D from Ru... Rust has lambdas, ADTs, pattern-matching and typeclasses(although not as powerful without kinds). These things alone makes a significant paradigm shift than programming in algol style languages. You can just use ARC<T> for every heap-allocated value and rust will still offer a significant advantage compared to C/C++.

pjmlp on March 16, 2019 [–]

C++20 has all those things as well, except for pattern-matching expected to arrive by C++23. :)

So if it wasn't for the copy-paste compatibility with unsafe C code, there is already quite a few modern features available in the language.

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