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by aperture147 1063 days ago
Until now I've convinced that people don't code Rust for higher performance, it's a cult and people use that to be looked cool. Rust are not some kind of black wand that can zap your 100k lines of C/C++ code to be 100 lines of code with the same speed. If you want high performance then it's not just the language which is fast, it's the way you implement your idea.

People are always talking shit about things to make people think they are smart, like people around me think they are Larry Wall, bashed Java for being slow, but they don't know that a lot of important, performant thing are coded in Java.

If you want raw performance, use C/C++. If you want simplicity, then use Python. If you want reliability and safety, then use Java/Go.