I'm not sure anyone really believes `zlib-rs` is a good example of idiomatic Rust performance, though
Maybe the reason I think that is because I've written Rust for a variety of purposes (web application, database bindings, high performance parser) so I account for the "register" of Rust that is appropriate without thinking about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_(sociolinguistics)
It might be that a simple description like the headline leads some people to believe they could write Rust the easy way and get code that's as fast as writing "Rust the hard way".
However, that is different than what you earlier said -- "It's... basically written in C.". I have actually written Rust programs where some parts were literally written in C and linked in -- in order to build functioning plugins -- and there is a world of difference with that.
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Discussing Rust is just exhausting. It's one digression after another, like the community can't just take a reasonable point ("zlib-rs isn't a good example of idiomatic rust performance") on its face.
I'm just not sure what to say to this. What do you expect from me, here?
