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by akaike 1399 days ago
Rust seems to need way more code optimisation than other languages to run faster/ at same level. For example Go is way simpler to write and is just fast without even optimising code. Rust is faster for sure but from what I see only if you really know what you do and optimise the code. Therefore I also wonder where exactly all this hype is coming from and for what exact reason to be honest because most developers won’t write optimised code in Rust (at least this is my assumption) and take advantage of it being faster.
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I assume folks who write optimised Rust have some experiences writing optimised C/C++... which means the domain is a bit narrow, usually microcontroller stuff, computer vision, OS kernel, etc.

On the other side, I agree perhaps we don't have to (re)write anything in Rust.