> I would even say that if Rust's performance is comparable to GC'ed languages, there's no point in using Rust in the first place. I'm not sure that's a fair a

> I would even say that if Rust's performance is comparable to GC'ed languages, there's no point in using Rust in the first place. I'm not sure that's a fair assessment. Even if you didn't gain anything in terms of raw performance, the gains in performance predictability would probably still be enough for many applications. Even if you didn't gain anything in terms of performance at all, the ownership semantics also give you good safety characteristics around concurrency, which would still probably be worthwhile for at least some applications.