alt Hacker NewsNo, you really can. You can use GC crates and the performance will be like Java, or you can use Rc and the performance will be like Swift. The only reason Rust people use unsafe for data structures (and they do not always do) is that for them, Java/Swift-level performance is just not enough.
> No, you really can. You can use GC crates and the performance will be like Java
It won't be anywhere near Java's. Those GCs are mark-and-sweep collectors. Java uses moving collectors. Moving collectors are used to avoid the high overheads of malloc/free in the C runtime (or of any free-list-based mechanism). They're a performance optimisation. Heap allocations in Java behave more like arenas than like heap allocations in languages with non-moving memory management, whether it's C, Rust, Python, or Go. Other runtimes that use moving collectors are Google's V8 and Microsoft's .NET, except that Java's ZGC has no GC pauses.