The opposite also holds true. Because Rust supports much higher level abstractions than C, it can be much faster and easier to experiment with different designs

The opposite also holds true. Because Rust supports much higher level abstractions than C, it can be much faster and easier to experiment with different designs than with C. Parallelism is the classic example, but I also really like Bryan Cantrill's blog post from 2018 [1], where he was able to use a BTreeMap as a drop-in replacement for a HashMap, and gain a lot of performance that way. [1] 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...