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Re:Performance Showdown: Rust vs Javascript (2020) by ziml77 on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:17AM (#26113855)
That's also a problem with C though. Because the complex answer is such a pain to write, people go for the simple answer that doesn't handle all the cases that it actually should. Like ignoring Unicode case conversions means that it will only work as expected on English input.

Really, no matter what the language is, people need to actually put some thought into what they're doing.

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Re:Performance Showdown: Rust vs Javascript (2020) by brundolf on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:56AM (#26115670)
Both good points. C gives you rope to hang yourself with when it comes to correctness; Rust gives you rope to hang yourself with when it comes to performance. Personally I prefer the latter, but awareness and understanding of what's really going on is important no matter what language you're using.
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Re:Performance Showdown: Rust vs Javascript (2020) by bobthebuilders on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:56PM (#26119528)
The other thing is say algorithm selection. Some data structures may be more performant for the job at hand, but do you really want to package or build them yourself? A lot of the time the answer is no.
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