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by wolvesechoes 91 days ago
> The real win here isn't TS over Rust

Kinda is. We came up with abstractions to help reason about what really matters. The more you need to deal with auxillary stuff (allocations, lifetimes), more likely you will miss the big issue.
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coldtea 91 days ago
The opposite: the more you rely on abstractions the more you miss the lower level optimization opportunities and loose understanding of algorithms and hardware.
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wolvesechoes 91 days ago
> of algorithms

Yes, sprinkling your code logic with malloc, .clone() or lifetime annotations on the other hand brings algorithmic enlightenment.

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coldtea 91 days ago
Dealing and having to think about the cost of malloc, clone() and lifetimes, brings algorithmic enlightenment more than working on an high abstraction ivory tower where things "magically happen".

Is your argument that the average Python or Typescript dev gets to think and care more about algorithms than the average C/C++/Rust dev?

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