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Productivity of Rust teams at Google (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by arendjr@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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Slide with text: “Rust teams at Google are as productive as ones using Go, and more than twice as productive as teams using C++.”

In small print it says the data is collected over 2022 and 2023.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Cyclic reference-counted pointers are the most probable way to accidentally leak memory. But it's a pretty well known anti-pattern that is not hard to avoid.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I didn't think of that case, because any time I use ref counting, cyclic references are at the from of my mind.