That reminds me of this article[1] by Bryan Cantrill. One takeaway is that Rust's ability to easily import generic data structures makes the average Rust progra

That reminds me of this article[1] by Bryan Cantrill. One takeaway is that Rust's ability to easily import generic data structures makes the average Rust program faster than the average C program. With a bit of effort, C can be made faster than Rust, but if I'm writing a simple utility in C that needs a linked list, I'm going to write the simplest possible implementation, straight from an algorithms textbook. It's better for it to be slower, but more understandable and maintainable. With Rust, the implementation I import has far more work put into it. I don't need to worry about how complex it is though, since its part of the standard library and I trust that people smarter than me have checked over what it does. [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...