I don’t have an issue with garbage collectors. Most code I write is GC’d.

The thing that actually convinced me to learn Rust was for something that I wanted to use less memory; my initial Clojure version, compiled with GraalVM, hovered around 100 megs. When I rewrote it in Rust, it hovered around 500kb.

It’s not completely apples to apples, and the laptop running this code has a ton of RAM anyway, but it’s still kind of awesome to see a 200x reduction in memory without significantly more complicated code.

A lot of the stuff I have to do in Rust for GC-less memory safety ends up being stuff I would have to do anyway in a GC’d language, e.g. making sure that one thread owns the memory after it has been transferred over a channel.