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[โ€“] savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd like to point out, the value add of Rust isn't speed, it's safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it's just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

That's very true. My main issue though is the steep learning curve