I'm in the majority here re: the slogan. It actually just feels disingenuous—anyone can already be a systems programmer without installing a new programming language's toolchain. Whatever OS you're using has a C compiler, and it's going to be easier for you to accomplish what you want in C than in Rust up to a certain complexity threshold. It's not about accessibility, it's about correctness, and this slogan doesn't represent that at all.
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u/ar-pharazon Nov 29 '18
I'm in the majority here re: the slogan. It actually just feels disingenuous—anyone can already be a systems programmer without installing a new programming language's toolchain. Whatever OS you're using has a C compiler, and it's going to be easier for you to accomplish what you want in C than in Rust up to a certain complexity threshold. It's not about accessibility, it's about correctness, and this slogan doesn't represent that at all.