Rust can, somewhat is already and ultimately will beat C on performance, due to way better guarantees on pointer non-aliasing. See eg. http://stackoverflow.com/

Rust can, somewhat is already and ultimately will beat C on performance, due to way better guarantees on pointer non-aliasing. See eg. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-than-c#146186 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/146159/is-fortran-faster-... Other than that Rust has way better zero-cost abstractions, so in practice allows writing faster code, as in C there are sanity limits after which you give up and write slower, but easier to manage code, as macro processor sucks, and type system is trying to stab you in the back at every step. Good example is `qsort`: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/c_standard_library/c_function_qsort.htm http://www.tutorialspoint.com/c_standard_library/c_function_...