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> Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and have other issues.

I wonder why some people in the Rust community seem to remind us every few sentences how Rust is superior to C because it's safer.

/s And now it's C, yesterday it was C++... what's next, ASM ?

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Because they're justifying a project whose sole difference to the other implementation is the language its written in.

So it's more like a "Look, it's possible to do this in Rust!"

than

"We did it in Rust, and we believe it's better because ..."

?

It literally says why it is better and you even quoted it:

> However, those projects are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust

Or to paraphrase it using your wording: "We did it in Rust and we believe it is better because it does not have memory unsafety issues that are the number #1 reason for security issues every year"

So without playing dumb or anything, you say they say:

"We have security issues every year because we program in unsafe languages like C, and to solve this, we should start rewriting things in Rust because it's 'memory safe'."

Amazing!

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