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Steve Klabnik - Rust, Oxide Computers

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Wasm

Rust has been an interesting learning for me. I've actually seen naive node beat naive Rust before. It's definitely not magic, but it can feel like magic because so often it is just faster even when you write basically the exact same code. One of the ways in which Rust gives you the ability to do these things is there's an escape hatch. So those pointers you were talking about in C that caused you all that strife, you could use those in Rust. But you have to specifically sort of annotate that section of code saying like, hey compiler, I'm about to do some stuff you can't know about.

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