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I will not pretend to have any inside information, I just picked up some of the related discussions on HN over the years. I'll easily believe that it can take

I will not pretend to have any inside information, I just picked up some of the related discussions on HN over the years. I'll easily believe that it can take significant work to outperform Golang (or Java) in Rust where application complexity is high (not just a simple cmd app), they do have an excellent baseline out of the box.

jmaker 3y ago
Definitely, microbenchmarks are what’s most striking especially because they seem immediately approachable, as opposed to a full fledged app with a variety of integrations. In that case the quality of the dependencies is much more important to me than any benchmark runs. Great point, totally agreed. I personally am often quite astonished by the amazing performance Go apps squeeze out of the box, with many efficiency tweaks and tricks we way too often take for granted, which you need to be aware of to come by in C++, Rust, or even Java. But I do also often get disappointed by the sudden inconsistency of that performance in Go after a while, the variance is a bit high, with C++, Rust, and Java runtime behavior being very consistent in general.