[carlmr]

I find where rust usually shines the most is if you do text processing. String allocations take time. In rust you can often avoid them and use things like cow to only allocate when you change something. That way often my text processing heavy scripts go twice the speed of a C++ version, and they're easier to write with Cargo, too.

Compared to highly optimized Java and C# I could often get a quite naive rust implementation to be 10x faster.

Naive rust means I didn't spend much time optimizing but I do use appropriate algorithms and to avoid unnecessary allocations.