[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.