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#412: Best Programming Language Ever? (Free Course)

David Bombal

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The Sweet Spot for Rust in a Washing Machine

I can't imagine anyone writing C code, unless it was like a bootloader or something that was so highly constrained. And I'm not sure that you want to put rust in a washing machine,. Now, maybe washing machines have 50 giga ram in them. But they probably have a little tiny chip that's got like 64K of ram in it, and a CPU and nothing else, and it's just like 18 cents or something like that. So the key thing will be is if rust evolves to the point that we get memory safety from rust without having much of a garbage collection cost. Then maybe rust could be used for things like web servers and Nginx, and all those things

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