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I am not a Rust guy (yet?). Are safe and super fast mutually exclusive? As I reas the article I sensed your explanation was probably the case. Did the many safe

• steveklabnik 7y ago
  They are not mutually exclusive, though some people will try to suggest it.
• twic 7y ago
  Not so much mutually exclusive as "safe, fast, easy, pick two", at least sometimes. It can take a lot of design effort to come up with a safe and efficient way to do some things, so it's often tempting to do something unsafe and efficient and hope it works out.