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Re:A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety by pjmlp on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:55PM (#18186691)
From my dabbling experiences with Rust, I would say that it should mostly be considered for scenarios where a GC is absolutely no go.

If the application deployment scenario can handle typical GC workloads, then using a programming language with such support is more productive.

One example would be modern GUI toolkits.

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Re:A Rust FFI adventure in unsafety by staticassertion on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @10:35PM (#18190643)
GC doesn't factor into my use of rust, really. It's definitely a nice benefit, but not the main motivator.

I use it because it's easy to write code that I can come back to later and understand, and have confidence in.

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