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This. The Rust community seem to be pushing Rust as a more-or-less general purpose programming language. But giving up garbage collection never makes sense unle
by foldr 7y ago
This. The Rust community seem to be pushing Rust as a more-or-less general purpose programming language. But giving up garbage collection never makes sense unless you have to. The applications where you really can't use GC are a tiny niche relative to the ones where you can.
- StreamBright 7y ago>> The applications where you really can't use GC are a tiny niche relative to the ones where you can. And this is one space Rust is targeting explicitly. Why would people replace Go with Rust for performance reasons otherwise? https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...