I've seen some Rust talks recently that describe it as "an alternative to C/C++". This seems like a good framing.
The term 'systems language' has hugely varying interpretations. Does it mean a web service? Does it mean an operating system? They have very different PL needs.
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Today I learnt that the original name for DOS was QDOS, for "Quick and Dirty Operating System"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#QDOS
(Seems rather unfortunate that they dropped the Q.)
Deno has the cutest PL mascot I think I've ever seen. Are there any other contenders?
I've just squeezed another 5% of performance out of difftastic by finding a few HashSet values that weren't FxHashSet.
I do wonder whether hash DoS resistance is a good default. Sure, Rust programs are often pretty fast anyway, but it feels like a different threat model to the rest of Rust.