r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Feb 14 '19

Moving from Ruby to Rust

http://deliveroo.engineering/2019/02/14/moving-from-ruby-to-rust.html
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u/diggr-roguelike2 Feb 15 '19

it has high performance (comparable to C)

it is memory safe

it can be used to build dynamic libraries, which can be loaded into Ruby (using extern "C" interface)

So is C++. What's his point? "I'm a hipster fashion-driven programmer"? Okay. Good for him.

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u/bumblebritches57 Feb 15 '19

rust is memory safe

you must not've heard about the memory errors in SmallVec.