Rust Is So Good You Get Paid

'Rust is So Good You Can Get Paid $20K to Make It as Fast as C' from the performance-issues dept. The Prossimo project (funded by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group) seeks to "move the Internet's security-sensitive software infrastructure to memory safe code." Two years ago the Prossimo project made an announcement: they'd begun work on rav1d, a safer high performance AV1 decoder written in Rust, according to a

A cropped tech-news screenshot reports that Rust is so effective that developers can be paid $20,000 to make a C implementation as fast as Rust. The joke is the exaggerated contrast between Rust’s performance and safety and the difficulty of matching it in C, shared as a humorous reaction by programmers and systems developers.

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