alt Hacker NewsThe question in terms of memory is, will vibe coded rust get around ownership issues by .clone()-ing everything.
Maybe this has changed since I wrote Rust, but that was a classic beginner fix. Just throw memory at it.
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The question to me in terms of memory is, if you're writing a weather app on windows why are you not using C#.
The point of these low/zero overhead languages like Rust is you're in an environment where memory management is ultra critical. The dotnet garbage collector does more than a good enough job for a weather app, likely a much better one than vibe coded .clone() Rust
Instead of oscillating between Rust and 1 GB webview apps just ... use the excellent managed language that exists on the operating system appropriate for GUI applications?
The other things I've seen beginners do is throw unsafe at everything.
Actually they just Arc<T> everything
https://github.com/luser/keep-calm-and-call-clone
"Keep calm and call clone" is a good strategy for getting things working. Don't prematurely optimize code until you know it's the bottleneck.