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Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft by xienze on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:08AM (#49656397)
Yeah it's more of a concern but not "rewrite a ten year old application in Rust to save on the cost of several gigabytes of RAM" bad.
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Re:Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft by captainbland on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:36AM (#49656700)
For the most part yeah but does depend on scale. For Java there are lower cost migration pathways like native compilation anyway if that does become your concern
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