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Rust Web Programming with Maxwell Flitton

Rustacean Station

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C++ and Rust

Rust doesn't have a garbage collector, but also you are rest assured that you're having memory safe applications. I found with rust, because of it's like quite aggressive checking and borrow checker and stuff like this, you kind of get forced into writing good code. So my day job, I work at an open source foundation, and we calculate like financial loss on a geographical scale for like weather events in the world. But a lot of the code is written in C++. And I rewrote some of it, which was the average like loss calculation of certain geographical area and rust. We got like a four times speed up.

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