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fithisux ◴[16 Sep 25 21:13 UTC] No.45268130[source]▶

"Rust shines in new projects where safety is the priority, while C++ continues to dominate legacy systems and performance-critical domains."

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1. MBCook ◴[17 Sep 25 02:29 UTC] No.45270895[source]▶

Hasn’t Rust been shown to be very fast, especially since it can elide a lot of safety checks that would otherwise be necessary to prevent bugs?

On legacy code bases, sure. C++ rules in legacy C++ codebases. That’s kind of a given isn’t it? So that’s not a benefit. Just a fact.

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