• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Rust: it will take 10 months to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

    Zig: it will take 10 days to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

    You get to pick one cult. Which one is it?

    • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’d like to point out, the value add of Rust isn’t speed, it’s safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it’s just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.