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I wonder how the Rustaceans will react to his honest criticism.
Edit: exactly how I expected, LOL
What honest criticisms did you find in this article? All I saw was;
This isn't new?
He said the code that came out was slow, but Rust always ranks within the top handful of languages for speed, so I'm taking that comment with a big pinch of salt. Among popular systems languages only C and C++ really beat Rust for speed. So you get better memory safety for the price of a pretty small decrease in speed and a steeper learning curve for the compiler's picky rules (though the compiler gives you lots of clear help). Rust programmers know this.
My guess is that he was using
cargo buildrather thancargo build --release. Relatively common for folks to complain about due to that, because beginner tutorials tend to skip that info (which is fair IMHO).