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How does Rusts features enable Lemmy development? Why not write it in Go or something similar? I'm a systems programming noob. Just want to know why you chose Rust.
i can't speak for the lemmy's developers but rust is basically the perfect language for backend servers
it's incredibly fast
it's incredibly safe
there is clippy, a incredibly powerful tool to detect common mistakes
statically linked libraries (bad for normal applications but ideal for servers, it's why go does it)
incredibly powerful pattern matching
very safe and easy-to-use generics
sanitized macros
these are just a couple of things that came to mind. for most of rust's life it was used as a language to create backend servers and dynamically link libraries so it ended up being very good for those things