The real benefit as I see it for using rust for backends is memory safety.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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All the major languages for web backends are memory safe. Java, C#, etc
These are garbage collected languages and come with the overhead of such a process. Rust has no GC process and instead relies on reference counters to statically track live memory.
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