[phplovesong]

Thats not special to rust in any way or form. Most of mentioned features are stolen from ML, and in some cases badly. Eg rust has unwrap thats basically a ticking time bomb waiting to blow up. Rust has many other ways to blow up the program. Its not only about memory safety (80% of rust apps in the wild dont benefit from "memory safety" in any way or form).

[nicoburns]

> Most of mentioned features are stolen from ML

Rust is the most popular ML-derived language, so if some is considering Rust vs. some other language the chances are the other one they're considering does not have all the ML goodies.

[Tadpole9181]

Okay, but the alternative isn't ML; virtually all of this software would otherwise be written in C or C++.

[tcfhgj]

IMHO every app benefits from memory safety.

Memory safety doesn't only have security implications, but reduces crashes, misbehavior and corrupt data.

You don't want either in any software, which has to fulfill a task in a productive way.

[phplovesong]

Sure, but a GC gives you that. Having manual memory management (like in C) is something only a very few applications REALLY need. Hell i have seen web frontends written in rust. Now the circle is complete.

[tcfhgj]

1. It doesn't give you that necessarily, see Go.

2. Rust doesn't have memory management like in C. In Rust, abstractions and the compiler manage memory for you, except when you opt into C-like memory management using unsafe.

3. The comment was about memory safety, not memory management, and its benefit.

4. In case of GC vs manual memory management was used as a speed comparison: You might not REALLY need the speed of Rust, but I gladly take it where I can. I am tired of sluggish resource hogging electron apps and similar. Electron probably destroyed at least 10-15 years of progress in hardware performance gains.

[phplovesong]

Electron is on a totally diffrent level. Im talking small compact programs (like rust/go/ocaml etc). Most do not need the 1-2ms faster execution rust provides.