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chrisco255yesterday at 8:32 PM1 replyview on HN

Zig is every bit as fast with typically even lower memory footprint as Rust. The main thing Rust promises that Zig cannot already do natively is memory safety. This is not about Python vs Rust. It is one systems language vs another.


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minimaxiryesterday at 9:08 PM

This Rust rewrite instance is explicitly about memory safety by admission of the devs; I was just commenting on the trend.