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Refactoring to Rust with Lily Mara

Rustacean Station

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How to Use Rust to Allocate String Memory

I was using a dynamic language at the time. So I actually had to ask my client to bump up their server and they're like, what, why, why need to do that? And I just put my head down and was a little bit sad. But yeah, when you have a long running process on the server, that's garbage collected, you don't really control the garbage collector. You don't really know what's going to happen and could be sitting there for a while. Right. It's much harder to effectively like reuse a string memory in a language like, you know, Python or Java or Ruby, what have you,. Because of the dynamic nature of languages as like

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