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>rust programs are a lot of times faster [...] than C and C++ counterparts Troll post? Or has fanboyism really gone this far?

• mhh__ 1mo ago
  It's often basically true though - the guarantees that rust can make wrt to lifetimes and memory allocation clearly enable programs to allocate less and be more aggressive with what they do allocate (all while being a fairly high-level language - I don't know if most rust programmers actually know what memory safety is at this point) I'm really not a huge fan of rust as a language but it is clearly delivering results in that e.g. I find myself actively hoping that people rewrite web tooling in rust and so on. C++ is a mess that should be allowed to die.
  • hulitu 1mo ago
    > it is clearly delivering results Yeah, there are some results in Firefox and some results in Mesa and some results in the linux kernel, but that's about all.
• pjc50 1mo ago
  Rust is much less likely to have heap leaks.