So much of the discourse around programming languages is totemistic. "X-lang is simple" "Y-lang is fast" "Z-lang scales."
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objectively faster than other languages that can reasonably claim to be safe and concurrent" 2/2
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fast is the odd one out on that list because there are objective ways to measure it
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kind of? Always leads to shenanigans. That's why the bench game is trying force "idiomatic/out-of-the-box" impls.
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I don't think "fast" is a useful context-free metric, but Rust is trying to say "we're trying to do all three"
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which is genuinely useful regardless of whether you can measure Rust perf in absolute terms vs. say C
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