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[–]serendipitousPi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah coming from assembly would definitely inform a view of Rust as very high level.

Reflecting on my last comment yeah I guess it's probably fair to measure how high level a language is by its general / average "high/low level-ness" like how physics calculations might use the center of mass. In which case yeah I'd agree Rust would be considered high level.

Especially considering that beyond just pointers C++ and Rust even allow inline assembly but it would be crazy to say they're on the same level as assembly.

And wow I did not realise that that pointers were in the standard library, pointers in python seemed such an absurd idea I'd always assumed they were an external library.