• @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Rust: it will take 10 months to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

    Zig: it will take 10 days to build the app you want, but it will run super fast.

    You get to pick one cult. Which one is it?

    • Tekhne
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      251 year ago

      I’d like to point out, the value add of Rust isn’t speed, it’s safety in a low-level language. C is also just as fast, it’s just that Rust guarantees safety in a wide class of potential catastrophic bugs with little to no runtime overhead, by using the design of the language and compiler.

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          41 year ago

          Development paradigms spearheaded by MySQL and PHP, where it was discovered that you can be really fast if you don’t care about getting the right answer.

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      1 year ago

      Idk I just wrote a simple cli tool in 2 hours in Rust. Complete with arg validation, actually helpful --help output, and parallelisation.

    • @kazaika
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      I wanted to try zig a couple of times now but was always put off by lacking tooling and generally bad compiler errors. Its kinda hard to justify spending time on something if you see the compiler point out an error inside a standart lib zig file and there is no directon for a fix whatsoever. Im hoping it’ll get better because the language seems really great