alt Hacker News> And I am also not entirely convinced that Rust is really better than C.
Well it's certainly not worse than c, and it's hard to argue it's as bad, so...
> I don't think merely moving to Rust makes Tor faster either.
It would be crazy to think switching languages would make a network protocol faster without some evidence of this.
> Well it's certainly not worse than c, and it's hard to argue it's as bad, so...
Except in regards to having a proper standard (the standard from Ferrocene has significant issues), and to the size of the language and how easy it is to implement a compiler for.
There are a lot of differences and trade-offs.