What Rust gives you over Java is determinism. Having a GC doesn't preclude you from leaking resources(file handles, textures, etc) and you're at the mercy of w

What Rust gives you over Java is determinism. Having a GC doesn't preclude you from leaking resources(file handles, textures, etc) and you're at the mercy of whenever the finalizer decides to run once the GC has determined it's time to free an object. Usually this manifests as your Java application humming along until you hit some GC threshold cliff and then perf/memory plummets. I also can't enforce ownership in Java which drives me up the wall. Once you hand out a ref anything is fair game and calling code is free to add that ref to the root GC set so that it never gets freed.