I mean, that's a real advantage. But personally I'm not so keen for all my system software to have the performance of garbage collected languages. I don't want my software to suddenly get 1.5x-4x slower and start using twice as much RAM. For pam and sudo it wouldn't matter, sure. But across the whole linux system? I'd rather a slow and careful rewrite in rust over that sort of system wide slowdown.
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I mean, that's a real advantage. But personally I'm not so keen for all my system software to have the performance of garbage collected languages. I don't want my software to suddenly get 1.5x-4x slower and start using twice as much RAM. For pam and sudo it wouldn't matter, sure. But across the whole linux system? I'd rather a slow and careful rewrite in rust over that sort of system wide slowdown.