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Fil-C has a large performance impact though, and it'll always be reasonably significant. Rusts popularity has always been the combo of safety and performance, otherwise you might as well just use C#
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> Rusts popularity has always been the combo of safety and performance, otherwise you might as well just use C#

Combined with the ability to compile to a single native binary, having a solid package management solution, a fairly advanced type system, and a solid selection of nice language features. Usually you need to give up at least one of those.

> Combined with the ability to compile to a single native binary, having a solid package management solution, a fairly advanced type system, and a solid selection of nice language features

Good to see a praise for C#.

Happy to see it's finally getting union types in 2026
Had some headaches with nuget, and C# type system isn't as advanced as Rust or TypeScript, even less so in comparison to Haskel (still solid notheless), but it really is a solid choice. Specially in comparison to Java.
More people should use C#, to be honest.