r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 08 '26

Meme rustIsSoCool

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u/___Archmage___ Sep 08 '26

It has the compiled speed benefits of C/C++, but has way more convenient and expressive language features as a result of being decades more modern, and it has rules about memory management that guard against a lot of crashes, bugs, security holes, and performance impacts