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by thesuperbigfrog 1707 days ago
No silver bullet exists.

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement ... in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity." -- Fredrick Brooks

Source: http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

Nevertheless, Rust has shown great promise and implemented great ideas for high performance and safer low-level / system programming.

We need to keep on improving and using Rust and its ideas to improve the high performance, low-level / system programming space.