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Re:A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost e... by jeffdavis on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:17PM (#20480564)
People do good things with rust. Therefore rust is a good programming language.

Could someone have done this particular good thing in another language? Absolutely. But that's not very relevant.

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Re:A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost e... by xiphias2 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:21PM (#20480617)
> Could someone have done this particular good thing in another language? Absolutely

While this is true for many other tasks, I don't think there exists any other programming language that fits so well for safe and efficient protocol implementation (where experimentation speed is not that important)

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Re:A Rust-based TLS library outperformed OpenSSL in almost e... by zaphar on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:09PM (#20481056)
Given enough time and resources someone could do equivalent work in assembly. The point of Rust is that it should take you less time and resources to do so.
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