Re:Is Rust faster than C?
by majormajor on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:15PM
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> (As a personal anecdote, I've probably run into more concurrency-related heisenbugs in Go than I ever did in C, with C heisenbugs more commonly being memory mismanagement in single-threaded code with complex object lifetimes/ownership structures...)
Is that beyond just "concurrency is tricky and a language that makes it easier to add concurrency will make it easier to add sneaky bugs"? I've definitely run into that, but have never written concurrent C to compare the ease of heisenbug-writing.
Is that beyond just "concurrency is tricky and a language that makes it easier to add concurrency will make it easier to add sneaky bugs"? I've definitely run into that, but have never written concurrent C to compare the ease of heisenbug-writing.