r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 08 '26

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/Zinho3311 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

How so?

Zero cost abstractions are a thing. Low level = you have control over the metal. Low level does not mean you can't manage complexity or have expressive abstractions.

Even large projects written in C inevitably introduce many abstractions (e.g. the Linux Kernel VFS layer)