> So unless Rust is able to produce binaries on all major platforms that are as fast as C++, people who need to squeeze out as much performance as possible are

> So unless Rust is able to produce binaries on all major platforms that are as fast as C++, people who need to squeeze out as much performance as possible are not going to drop the language. I guess you missed this in the sibling, but ripgrep does this today, and it works on Windows, Mac and Linux, and should be as fast or faster than GNU grep. See benchmarks: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#single-file-benchmarks http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#single-file-benchmarks See binaries: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases