Thanks for the thoughtful response! My own experience w/ Rust is limited to just kicking the tires implementing my favorite toy problem, but it was incredibly

Thanks for the thoughtful response! My own experience w/ Rust is limited to just kicking the tires implementing my favorite toy problem, but it was incredibly positive -- my solution ended up faster than my previous best (in C++) while also having extremely-straightforward, clean code. (Something that particularly blew my mind was crossbeam_channel being (arguably) nicer than Go's built-in channels, and being able to spread work over threads w/ zero possibility of races -- that's some fuckin' cool shit.) That experience, combined w/ observation of tools like fd and ripgrep, have convinced me that rust is actually unlocking a higher level of quality for software, at least in practice, if not in theory. Your answer has not disabused me of the perception! :-) > Although of course there are alternatives to ripgrep written in C or C++, so I'm not sure how compelling of an argument that is. But they're not as good as ripgrep ;-)