I think Rust has an intrinsic advantage simply in its power. Standard libraries (and really most code) are written by humans. Giving those humans the confidence

I think Rust has an intrinsic advantage simply in its power. Standard libraries (and really most code) are written by humans. Giving those humans the confidence to implement complex data structures and algorithms without worrying about null pointers or memory leaks has ripping effects on performance. See C’s (“simple”) AVL tree vs Rust’s B-Tree[0]. [0]: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performance-of-c-and-rust/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/28/the-relative-performa...