Steve Klabnik

Steve Klabnik's personal website — writing about Rust, Ruby, open source, philosophy, and more.

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Is Rust faster than C?

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Someone on Reddit recently asked: What would make a Rust implementation of something faster than a C implementation, all things being the same? I think this is…

Rust's Golden Rule

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I find myself thinking about a particular design principle of Rust today. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it named specifically before, but it gets referred to from…