Indeed, probably the most overused selling pitch for programming languages has to be "C like performance", while only providing evidence for a few smaller use c

Indeed, probably the most overused selling pitch for programming languages has to be "C like performance", while only providing evidence for a few smaller use cases. I've only dabbled with Rust enough to grok the ownership parts, but I'm happy to hear you feel it lives up to that. As an aside, I'm not expecting a lot of languages to live up to the "C like performance" claim when they make it, as C has been receiving optimizations for over 50 years by now, so it makes sense it's still the fastest around, at least until there is some major breakthrough in programming language design.