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by untog 2147 days ago
Not having garbage collection isn’t a personal preference, it’s something that enables high performance, low footprint programming.

I’ll agree that I personally am a little confused by the HTTP web server frameworks I see written in Rust, it feels like overkill there. But Rust definitely has a place. If you don’t see it that’s absolutely fine, it just means you’re not in a space that would benefit from it!