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Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset
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Rust is generally not going to outperform well optimized C code.
That said, it is far easier to write performant Rust code than C code. So, what we see, is that projects that move to Rust frequently see performance gains.
That just means the initial C code was not that great (performance wise). From observation, most C projects are fairly unoptimized.