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Great things about Rust that aren't just performance

Monday, January 6, 2025 Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust. It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.

Rust lets you put your design straight into types, with enums and structs and traits giving you a lot of room to maneuver. It's remarkably helpful having Rust's compiler by your side, making sure that you're using types correctly and satisfying constraints on things. Rust is a little unique, to me, in being notably higher level than these languages while giving you ultimately the same amount of control (if you break glass enough, for some things).

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