Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Rust Programming Language
by Zababa on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @03:43AM
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Fair point, that's why I said that Rust would only lose part of its appeal and not all of it. I mostly do web stuff so my vision is influenced by that. In that context, Rust's strength is that you can get C++ like performance without the footguns. But in those cases, if you have a language that's easier to use and that doesn't use that much more resources than Rust, Rust would lose a part of its appeal.
It isn't discussed as much nowadays, because people more focus on the memory management side of Rust's benefit, but it was the reason Rust was designed in the first place, and it has no competitor in this area: if you need to do any kind of significant multi-threading in you application, then Rust is a game changer.