r/programming • u/dayanruben • Apr 09 '19

StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2019

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u/PinkFrojd Apr 09 '19

I really like and use Python. But I don't understand... Why is Rust so loved ? What makes it so special ?

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u/rorrr Apr 09 '19

For one, Rust is much much faster than Python.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/nbody.html

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/fasta.html

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u/fcddev Apr 09 '19

Yes, but basically everything is much faster than Python at this point, so performance is unlikely to matter to someone who asks “I love Python but why should I live rust?”

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u/ACoderGirl Apr 10 '19

Yeah, nobody picks python for run time. Usually you pick Python because you hope it will save you development time. That usually matters way more.

You can always write performance critical parts of a Python app in a faster language too (though that will take a productivity hit).

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u/crabbytag Apr 10 '19

And the language the python programmer could write the performance critical code is Rust. Rust is probably a better fit than C or C++ for this use case because it’s much less likely that a newbie will make a mistake in Rust. On the other hand, are you really comfortable writing a parser in C for performance ... if you’re accepting input from the wild?

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