Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by joelg236 3625 days ago
> I really do wish that Rust would provide nice alignment guarantees (eg 32 byte) without depending on customizing the allocator, and builtin, safe, SIMD instructions

Same could be said about C/C++. I'm guessing the answer is much simpler: the author(s) are comfortable with C++. And they probably don't deploy much rust code yet.