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A Rust shaped hole
Without writing a single line of Rust, why I feel it might be right
This train of thought started with wanting to write a program, an xfdesktop replacement, that can serve as my desktop background, slowly meandering though a pastel game of life, or floating through a Mandelbrot set. As another example, esbuild surprised the JavaScript ecosystem half a decade ago by demonstrating that tooling could be made orders of magnitude faster by writing it in Go, triggering a "rewrite everything in Go / Rust" frenzy that is still ongoing (TypeScript itself is being rewritten in Go!) In an Advent of Code once, I'd write a Haskell solution in what seemed like a very high level of abstraction, closer to Category Theory than to Von Neumann machines, with no speed optimizations or other tuning.
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