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  • UnfairUtan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Because most things built with Rust are faster than their equivalent, especially electron-based apps.

    So as a user, regardless of the cult following, i’m happy that this tech exists and is being adopted so fast.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      It’s primarily about safety, not speed. Any C or C++ program should match the speed but not the correctness.

      • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        no, it’s primarily about speed and resources because the comparison is often not against a hypothetical C/C++ alternative, but against an existing one that is slower and more resource intensive.

        • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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          7 months ago

          So they should say that it is written with performance in mind. I don’t care how you achieved that. rust, c++, assembly, whatever.

          Mention that it has very good collaborative editing.

          Mention features.

          • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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            7 months ago

            Everone claims their software is fast. When stating that it is written in a native language it is actually believable.

          • upto60percentoff@kbin.run
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            7 months ago

            VS Code is written with performance in mind. Compared with other electron apps, it’s very performant.

            Compared with even a sloppily written native app though, it’s not great.

            • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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              7 months ago

              so fucking say that. Designed to be fastest editor. Show benchmarks. Talk about your features. I still don’t care what tools you used to achieve it. It being written in rust does not automatically make things fast. It may even slow things down, in some cases.

            • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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              7 months ago

              I don’t care how easy it is for the developer. And modern c++ is slightly harder than rust, but not all that difficult to get right with smart pointers and iterators etc.

              • ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today
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                7 months ago

                If you care about your software being stable and secure, you should care about how easy the programming language used makes and encourages that.

                People aren’t robots and make mistakes often.

    • Matt@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      Because most things built with Rust are faster than their equivalent, especially electron-based apps.

      And safer, since Electron is just Chromium, which is mainly written in C++.