On: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

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If Rust isn't suitable for C's niche, Rust's proponents should stop pitching Rust as a replacement for C.

> The Rust team made conscious design choices in full awareness of the trade-offs

I don't think that anyone who isn't already predisposed to avoid exceptions would consider the tradeoff the Rust people made to be the correct one.

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This is absurd. Most C applications do not need to persist through OOM errors, and has people have repeatedly reiterated, it is totally possible to write a Rust program that persists through OOM errors.